Scuffle

Definitions: Scuffle

Scuffle

Noun

1. Disorderly fighting.

2. A hoe that is used by pushing rather than pulling.

3. An unceremonious and disorganized struggle.

Verb

1. Walk by dragging one's feet; "he shuffled out of the room"; "We heard his feet shuffling down the hall".

2. Fight or struggle in a confused way at close quarters; "the drunken men started to scuffle".

3. Fight or wrestle in a vigorous way.

Date "scuffle" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1749. (references)

Synonyms: Scuffle

Synonyms: hassle (n), rough-and-tumble (n), scramble (n), scuffle hoe (n), shamble (v), shuffle (v), tussle (v). (additional references)

Synonym by domain: scuffled (law).

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Contention	Shindy; fracas; (discord); clash of arms; tussle, scuffle, broil, fray; affray, affrayment; velitation; colluctation, luctation; brabble, brigue, scramble, melee, scrimmage, stramash, bushfighting.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Scuffle

English words defined with "scuffle": scuffle hoe, Scuffled, Scuffling. (references)

Domain	Usage
Movie/TV Titles	Let's Scuffle (1942)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	The Dublin Scuffle (reference) (more book examples)

Music	Scuffle Shuffle Blues (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Civil Liberties	Hong Kong	One minor scuffle between police and (non-Falun Gong) protesters led to charges against a handful of demonstrators, which in the end resulted in acquittals of the protesters and a judge's criticism of police behavior. (references)
Human Rights	Ghana	An initial police investigation concluded that the policeman's gun went off accidentally during the scuffle with the driver; however, other reports claimed that the policeman was drunk at the time of the incident. (references)
Minorities	Bosnia and Herzegovina	On May 5, approximately 1,500 Serbs, many of them from the hard-line nationalist Ravna Gora Chetnik movement, disrupted a cornerstone laying ceremony for the reconstruction of the destroyed Omar Pasha mosque in Trebinje, in the southern RS. Members of the crowd beat the local OHR representative and a television cameraman in a scuffle that resulted as the Serbs blocked Bosniak and international dignitaries from entering the site. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Scuffle" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 97.09% of the time. "Scuffle" is used about 103 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	97.09%	100	32,668
Noun (proper)	1.94%	2	245,945
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	0.97%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	103	N/A

Expression using "scuffle": scuffle hoe. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "scuffle"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Afrikaan		geveg (action, battle, fight, struggle). (various references)

Albanian		përleshje (conflict, dustup, fight, fighting, fray, melee, mix in, mix up, scramble, scrimmage, scrum, set to, skirmish, tussle), lufta (action, battle, fight, struggle), kacafytje (dustup, fracas, scrimmage, wrestle), hahem (compete, contend, dispute, emulate, quarrel, rival, vie). (various references)

Arabic		‏مشى مجرجرا اقدامه, ‏تعارك, ‏تشاجر (brawl, broil, come to blows, fraying, hassle, jangle, quarrel, row, rumble, scrap, scrimmage, set to, spat, squabble), ‏عراك (affray, battle, brawl, fight, melee, quarrel, ruck, slugfest), ‏شجار (affray, altercation, bicker, brawl, breeze, broil, controversy, fight, fracas, melee, miff, muss, quarrel, row, rowdiness, ruck, ruction, rumble, rumpus, scrap, set to, shindy, slugfest, squabble, squall, tiff). (various references)

Bulgarian		схватка (clash, encounter, rencontre, rencounter, skirmish), сбиване (affray, brush, fray, mix in, muss, row, scrap, scrape, set to, shindig, shindy, warm words), разривам, тътря се (creep, drag, flop about, jog, lag, shamble, shuffle), боричкане (scramble), боричкам се (rough-house, scrap, spar). (various references)

Catalan		batalla (action, battle, fight, struggle). (various references)

Czech		rvát se (fight, scrap), prát se, potyèka (brush, passage of arms, sword play). (various references)

Danish		slag (action, battle, blow, break, breed, buffet, buffeting, cape, fight, fissure, flank, impact, outward stroke, shock, stroke, struggle, tensor fasciae latae, traverse), kamp (action, battle, fight, struggle). (various references)

Dutch		treffen (accomplish, achieve, action, affect, agitate, attain, battle, catch, come across, encounter, fight, find, get, hit, meet, move, reach, run across, see, strike, struggle), slag (accomplishment, action, agony, battle, block, blow, break, breed, expertness, field, fight, grasp, impact, kind, knock, lay, movement, plot, reversing dog, shock, skilfulness, skill, skillfulness, snare, sort, spinning, stroke, struggle, surge pressure, trap, travel, traverse, trip dog, trip-over stop, turn, water hammer), kamp (action, battle, camp of tents, camping ground, camping site, fight, struggle, tented camp), gevecht (action, battle, fight, struggle). (various references)

Esperanto		interbatiĝo, batalo (battle, struggle). (various references)

Faeroese		bardagi (action, battle, fight, struggle). (various references)

Farsi		مشاجره (Contention, Contest, Dispute, Pique, Plea, Wrangle), نزاع (Affray, Battle, Contention, Discord, Dispute, Fray, Quarrel, Scrap, Spar, Squeal, Strife, Tousle, War, Warfare, Wrangle), کشمکش کردن (Spat, War), کشمکش (Bout, Conflict, Scrimmage, Skirmish, Struggle, Toil, Tussle, Wrestle), غوغا (Affray, Clamor, Din, Fray, Hubbub, Jangle, Melee, Mob, Pandemonium, Peal, Rave, Riot, Rumpus, Scrimmage, Tumult, Turmoil, Uproar), جنجال (Brawl, Hubbub, Jangle, Tumult), دست بیقه شدن با. (various references)

Finnish		tappelu (brawl, fight, riot, rough-and-tumble). (various references)

French		rixe, combat, bagarre (scrap, scrimmage). (various references)

Frisian		striid (action, battle, fight, struggle), fjochtsjen (action, battle, fight, struggle). (various references)

German		raufen (brawl, fight, pull, pulling, scrap, to scuffle, to tussle, tussle). (various references)

Greek		συμπλοκή (affray, clash, complexing, encounter, engagement, fray, mκlιe, sequestering, set to, tussle). (various references)

Hawaiian		lufta (action, battle, fight, struggle). (various references)

Hebrew		ללכת מכות (fight), ל�"תכתש (roughhouse, skirmish). (various references)

Hungarian		tömegverekedés, dulakodás (grapple, scrap, scrimmage, scrum), tolókapa, sarabolókapa, saraboló, hirig (mill, punch-up, roughhouse). (various references)

Icelandic		slagsmál (action, battle, fight, struggle). (various references)

Indonesian		hantam (pound, pummel, strike). (various references)

Italian		battaglia (action, battle, fight, struggle). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		立ち回り (fight), 挌闘 (fight, fist fight, fisticuffs, melee, wrestling), 取っ組み合い (grapple). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		たちまわり (fight), かくとう (definite answer, fight, fist fight, fisticuffs, grappling, hand-to-hand fighting, melee, square hand-lantern, wrestling), とっくみあい (grapple). (various references)

Manx		streeu (altercate; striving, altercation, conflict, contend, contention, contest, cope, disagree, discord, disputation, encounter, endeavour, flare up, squabble, strife, strive, variance), screebey (abrade, abrasion, chafe, claw, dress, friction, grate, graze, itch, rasp, scrape, scrape along, scraping, scratch, scrawl, stridulate, striking), screebane (curry-comb, hoe, itch), jannoo boiranys, costreppey (vie). (various references)

Norwegian		slagsmål (action, battle, brawl, fight, struggle). (various references)

Papiamen		peleya (action, battle, fight, struggle), pelea (action, battle, fight, struggle), bringamentu (action, battle, fight, struggle), bataya (action, battle, fight, struggle). (various references)

Pig Latin		ufflescay

Portuguese		rixa (affray, brawl, bully, riot, rumpus, scrimmage, tussle). (various references)

Romanian		se încãiera (brawl, fall over each other), trântealã (drubbing), pãruialã (brawl, scrap, squabble, tussle), luptå (action, battle, fight, struggle), bãtaie (battue, beat, beating, blow, box, bursting, close, concussion, cudgeling, cuff, cuffing, drubbing, dusting, fight, fighting, flogging, fray, lacing, licking, Pat, patter, pattering, percussion, pick, range, rattle, row, run, scramble, scrap, set to, shot, slap, slapping, stroke, sweep, thrashing, throbbing, thud, thump, toll, tussle, warming), învãlmãşealã (bustle, confusion, crowd, hubbub, scrimmage, scurry, squash, stampede, stir, struggle, throng, turmoil), încleştare (clench, clenching, fight, grip, handgrip), încãierare (brush, fray, grapple, melee, rough and tumble, rout, row, scramble, scrimmage, set to, skirmish, tussle, wrestle). (various references)

Russian		борьба (action, battle, contestation, fight, fighting, fray, strife, struggle, tussle, wrestle, wrestling), бой (action, battle, combat, engagement, fight, fighting, struggle), битва (action, battle, struggle), б (blank, canteen, gain, ill, market, marriage, of the coast, pole, refuse, shave, struggle, tangle, unemployment, warrior), драться (brawl, come to blows, fight), драка (affray, battle royal, fight, fray, mix in, mix-in, scrimmage, scrum, tussle, wigs on the green). (various references)

Scottish		cath (action, battle, fight, fighting, struggle). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		tuča (brawl, dogfight, fight, free for all, rumble, scrap, scrape, set to, shindig, tussle), tući se (fight, scrap, tussle), metež (helter-skelter, hubbub, pell mell, pother, trouble, tumult, turmoil, uproar, upset), kavga (dogfight). (various references)

Spanish		batalla (action, battle, fight, fighting, struggle, wheel base, wheel track, wheelbase). (various references)

Sranan		feti (action, battle, fight, struggle). (various references)

Swedish		slagsmål (action, affray, battle, brawl, ding-dong, dust-up, fight, fighting, fisticuffs, Gore, mix up, rough and tumble, rough-house, row, scramble, scrap, set to, struggle, tussle), tumult (affray, agitation, bobbery, commotion, disorder, disturbance, pandemonium, pother, riot, scrimmage, tumult, uproar). (various references)

Thai		เ�"ินลากขา (scuff), การเ�"ินลากขา (scuff), การต่อสู้กันอุตลุ�", ต่อสู้กันอุตลุ�". (various references)

Turkish		saç saça baş başa kavga etmek, muharebe (action, battle, fight, struggle), kavga (affray, brawl, brawling, broil, bust up, conflict, contention, dispute, feud, fight, fighting, fray, jangle, jar, kick up, miff, odds, punch-up, quarrel, row, rumpus, scrap, set to, shooting match, strife, tilt, unpleasantness, wrangle), itişip kakışmak (hustle, play rough, romp, shove), itiş kakış, boğuxmak (action, battle, fight, struggle), boğuşmak (be at each other's throat, buffet, grapple, romp, struggle, wrestle), boğuşma (buffet, romp, struggle, wrestle), ayaklarını sürümek (scuff, shuffle). (various references)

Turkmen		uruю (fight, war), penjelemek (snatch). (various references)

Ukranian		сумбурна промова, човгання (shuffle), бійка (affray, broil, fray, hassle, mix up, rough and tumble, tousle), битися (battle, bustle, combat, fight, pulse, skirmish, spar, struggle, wrestle), плентатися (dodder, drawl, inch along, lag, navigate, plug along, scuff, shamble, trudge). (various references)

Vietnamese		sự xô đẩy (hustle, jostle), sự chen lấn (jostle), cuộc ẩu đả (affray, doglight, fray, knock-about, scrimmage, tussle, wrangle). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	proelium, pugna. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "scuffle": scuffled, scuffler, scufflers, scuffles. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Scuffle" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Scawfell, scruffle, scuffe, skuffle, smuffle. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "scuffle" (pronounced sku"ful)
4	-u" f u l	duffel, kerfuffle, muffle, reshuffle, ruffle, shuffle, truffle.
3	-f u l	apocryphal, artful, awful, baffle, baleful, bashful, beautiful, blissful, boastful, bountiful, careful, cheerful, colorful, deceitful, delightful, disdainful, disgraceful, disrespectful, distasteful, distrustful, doleful, doubtful, dreadful, dutiful, eventful, faithful, falafel, fanciful, fateful, fearful, fistful, fitful, flavorful, forceful, forgetful, fretful, frightful, fruitful, gainful, gleeful, graceful, grateful, harmful, hateful, healthful, helpful, hopeful, houseful, hurtful, insightful, joyful, lawful, lustful, masterful, meaningful, merciful, mindful, mistrustful, mournful, needful, neglectful, painful, panful, peaceful, pitiful, playful, plentiful, powerful, prayerful, purposeful, raffle, regretful, remorseful, resentful, resourceful, respectful, restful, riffle, rifle, rightful, rueful, scornful, shameful, sinful, skillful, sorrowful, soulful, spiteful, stifle, stressful, successful, suspenseful, tactful, tasteful, tearful, thankful, thoughtful, trifle, triumphal, truthful, tuneful, uneventful, unfaithful, ungrateful, unhealthful, unhelpful, unlawful, unsuccessful, untruthful, useful, vengeful, waffle, wasteful, watchful, willful, wishful, wistful, woeful, wonderful, worshipful, wrongful, youthful, zestful.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-e-f-f-l-s-u"
	-2 letters: clefs, clues, cuffs, flues, fuels, fusel, luces, luffs, scuff, sluff.
	-3 letters: cels, clef, clue, cues, cuff, ecus, effs, feus, flue, flus, fuel, fuse, luce, lues, luff, self, slue.
	-4 letters: cel, cue, ecu, eff, efs, elf, els, feu, flu, leu, sec, sel, sue, use.
	-5 letters: ef, el, es, us.
	Words containing the letters "c-e-f-f-l-s-u"
	+1 letter: cuffless, scuffled, scuffler, scuffles.
	+2 letters: fullfaces, scufflers.
	+3 letters: affluences, effluences.
	+4 letters: affluencies, effulgences.
	+5 letters: difficulties, fancifulness, forcefulness, sufficiently.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro.