scuff
English
/skʌf/
verb
Definitions
- To scrape the feet while walking.
- To hit lightly, to brush against.
- To mishit (a shot on a ball) due to poor contact with the ball.
Etymology
Borrowed from Scots scuff (touch lightly, hit, graze) derived from Old Norse skúfa (push aside, shove) derived from Proto-Germanic *skeubaną (shove, drive, push).
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*skeubaną
Gloss
shove, drive, push
Concept
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- antiscuff English
- ball English
- nonscuff English
- outshove English
- rough English
- roughscuff English
- scuffball English
- scuffer English
- scuffy English
- shool English
- shovable English
- shove English
- shove ha'penny English
- shove off English
- shoveboard English
- shovegroat English
- shovel English
- shover English
- shoving English
- *skewbʰ- Proto-Indo-European
- skyve Norwegian Bokmål
- *skeubaną Proto-Germanic
- scufan Old English
- scūfan Old English
- sċūfan Old English
- schoven Middle English
- *skjófa Old Norse
- skúfa Old Norse
- skioban Old High German
- skiuban Old High German
- 𐌰𐍆𐍃𐌺𐌹𐌿𐌱𐌰𐌽 Gothic
- *scūvan Old Dutch
- skuuv Westrobothnian
- scuff Scots
- skūva Old Frisian