scuff

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And the look, at least while scuff-free, dresses up and down well; Pedipeds can easily transition from nice event to playground fun or the other way around.

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  1. intransitive verb To scrape the feet while walking; shuffle.
  2. transitive verb To scrape with the feet.
  3. transitive verb To shuffle or shift (the feet), as in embarrassment.
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  • Their boots made marks on the pink scuff-sensitive surface of Gerston's mind. —  F ;SF - vol 096 issue 06 - June 1999
  • A scuff, straight and smooth that could be made only by the side of a shoe— leather or rubber. —  Blood Lure
  • Kallakak's muscular arms moved him along more rapidly than the majority of pedestrians along the hundred meter wide tunnel, its sides lined with black stairs that showed no sign of scuff or wear. —  Asimov'sSF,March2008
  • The way the area of my chest around my heart was filled with that longing again, the same feeling I had when listening to the seagull's cry, and how the tempo of my walk changed from the scuff-footed pace I had adopted beneath the backpack's weight to light-footed and fast. —  FSFApril2005
  • Anti-scuff glaze for enrobed chocolate to keep up appearances —  ConfectioneryNews RSS
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Etymologies (5)

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  1. Probably of Scandinavian origin; akin to Old Norse skūfa, to push.

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  1. from Swedish skuffa = Danish skuffe, push, shove, jog; a secondary form of the verb represented by English shove: see shove. Hence freq. scuffle, shuffle.
  2. A corruption (also in another corrupt form scruff) of scuft: see scuft.
  3. Cf. scurf, scruff.
  4. scuff, v.
 

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