scuff

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To scrape the feet while walking; shuffle.
2. v. To scrape with the feet.
3. v. To shuffle or shift (the feet), as in embarrassment.
4. v. To scrape and roughen the surface of.
5. n. The act or sound of scraping especially with the feet.
6. n. A worn or rough spot resulting from scraping.
7. n. A flat backless house slipper.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To walk without raising the feet from the ground or floor; shuffle: rarely used of an analogous action of the hands.
2. To graze slightly.
3. To roughen the surface of by hard usage; spoil the gloss, polish, or finish of.
4. n. Same as scuft and scruff.
5. n. A scurf; a scale.
6. n. A light shoe or slipper.

Wiktionary

1. adj. Caused by scraping, usually with one's feet.
2. v. To mishit (a shot on a ball) due to poor contact with the ball.
3. v. To scrape the feet while walking.
4. v. To hit lightly, to brush against.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. Prov. Eng. The back part of the neck; the scruff.
2. v. To walk without lifting the feet; to proceed with a scraping or dragging movement; to shuffle.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. walk without lifting the feet
2. v. poke at with the foot or toe
3. n. the act of scuffing (scraping or dragging the feet)
4. v. get or become scuffed
5. n. a slipper that has no fitting around the heel
6. v. mar by scuffing