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Scuff   /skəf/   Listen
Scuff

noun
1.
A slipper that has no fitting around the heel.  Synonym: mule.
2.
The act of scuffing (scraping or dragging the feet).



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"Scuff" Quotes from Famous Books



... end, he heard a murmur and scuff of feet around him, did he arouse. He asked his nurses to lift his eyelids for him. This was done. He coldly surveyed the people who had crowded into the room ...
— Boys' Book of Indian Warriors - and Heroic Indian Women • Edwin L. Sabin
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... built? I didn't see no stun up here that was fit for quarryin'. So I put it to a lot of fellers where they got their buildin' m'ter'ls. Wal, after figurin' round a spell, 'n' makin' signs by the schuner load, found out the hull thing. Every stun in this place was whittled out 'f the ruff-scuff at the bottom of the mounting, 'n' fetched up here in blankets on men's shoulders. All the mud, too, to make their bricks, was backed up in the same way. Feller off with his blanket 'n' showed me how they did it. Beats all. Wust of it was, ...
— Overland • John William De Forest
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Words linked to "Scuff" :   carpet slipper, slipper, shamble, wear off, wear thin, wear out, scratch, shuffle, wear down, wear, kick, scrape, rub, wipe, scratch up


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