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Definition of Scuffs
1. scuff [v] - See also: scuff
Lexicographical Neighbors of Scuffs
Literary usage of Scuffs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Sketches of Lynn, Or, The Changes of Fifty Years by David Newhall Johnson (1880)
"Perhaps I can get some ' scuffs.' I can earn thirty cents a day on them." The old
shoemakers will understand what "scuffs" mean without turning to the ..."
2. The West Somerset Word-book: A Glossary of Dialectal and Archaic Words and by Frederick Thomas Elworthy (1886)
"Loose slippers—usually made of list. A purty old show you be, wi' nothin' but
they old scuffs on, that nobody ..."
3. The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptoms by Robert Burton (1847)
"... of sleeping and waking, 103 Affection in melancholy, what, 109 Against abuses,
repulse, injuries, contumely, disgraces, scuffs, 376 Against envy, livor, ..."
4. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1816)
"... not to be depended upon, and his frequent scuffs at religion offensive to
every sober mind. He had before been convicted of making false quotations, ..."
5. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1835)
"On stunted feet its monstrous weight Climbs like a tower, in awkward And round
and round, a scaly mail scuffs every effort to assail. ..."
6. Glimpses of Fifty Years: The Autobiography of an American Woman by Frances Elizabeth Willard (1889)
"... and our party scuffs along through the world- famed Mosque, looking with
watchful eyes for traces of the temple, dear to Jew and Christian, ..."
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