Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The nape of the neck; the scruff.
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Examples
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Down-stairs came Emily, dragging after her the unwilling Keeper, his hind legs set in a heavy attitude of resistance, held by the “scuft of his neck,” but growling low and savagely all the time.
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Down-stairs came Emily, dragging after her the unwilling Keeper, his hind legs set in a heavy attitude of resistance, held by the "scuft of his neck," but growling low and savagely all the time.
Life of Charlotte Brontë — Volume 1 Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell 1837
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'the scuft of the neck,' ran him out to the door in a twinkling.
The History of David Grieve Humphry Ward 1885
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