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Scuffs vs Sluffs - What's the difference?

scuffs | sluffs |

As verbs the difference between scuffs and sluffs

is that scuffs is (scuff) while sluffs is (sluff).

scuffs

English

Verb

(head)
  • (scuff)

    • scuff

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Caused by scraping, usually with one's feet.
    • Someone left scuff marks in the sand.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To mishit (a shot on a ball) due to poor contact with the ball.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=September 2 , author= , title=Wales 2-1 Montenegro , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=The Montenegro captain was finding space at will and followed up with a speculative shot that he scuffed wide, after Wales were slow in closing down the Juventus striker.}}
  • To scrape the feet while walking.
  • To hit lightly, to brush against.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=December 29 , author=Keith Jackson , title=SPL: Celtic 1 Rangers 0 , work=Daily Record citation , page= , passage=Wallace threw himself at it to connect with a flying header. He looked a certain scorer but his effort scuffed the inside of Fraser Forster’s post.}}

    Derived terms

    * scuff mark

    Related terms

    * scuffle

    See also

    * scoff * scruff

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The back part of the neck; the scruff.

    • Anagrams

    *

    sluffs

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (sluff)

    • sluff

    English

    Alternative forms

    * slough

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (skin shed by a snake or other reptile).
    • That is the sluff of a rattler; we must be careful.
  • (dead skin on a sore or ulcer).
    • This is the sluff that came off of his skin after the burn.
  • An avalanche, mudslide, or a like slumping of material or debris.
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  • * {{quote-web, date=2002-03-02, author=Sid Perkins, title=Avalanche! Scientists are digging out the secrets of lethal flows of snow., site=The Free Library, url=http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Avalanche!+Scientists+are+digging+out+the+secrets+of+lethal+flows+of+...-a084054171,
    • , passage=At least for small sluffs like the ones Brown and his colleagues have triggered, the avalanche slides like a block of material instead of flowing like a fluid.}}

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (to shed or to slide off).
  • *
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  • ignore, shrug (off)
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  • (discard).
  • * {{quote-news, year=2009, date=February 16, author=Phillip Alder, title=At a Florida Game, an Unusual Double Squeeze, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=If either played another club, declarer would ruff on the board and sluff his diamond queen.}}
  • to avoid working
    • He's sluffing off somewhere.

    Derived terms

    * sluffy

    Anagrams

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