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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
scuff
verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
scuffed brown shoes
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He'd made no move to leave, however, and scuffed along behind them.
▪ He was wearing work shoes, scuffed and old, with new red laces.
▪ Moodily, she scuffed the toe of her boot against the deck rail.
▪ She scowled at her sandals and scuffed them on the gravel.
▪ The villains are scuffing one side of the ball.
▪ Wind scuffed up dust and moaned in the sandstone.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Scuff

Scuff \Scuff\, n. [Cf. D. schoft shoulder, Goth. skuft hair of the head. Cf. Scruff.] The back part of the neck; the scruff. [Prov. Eng.]
--Ld. Lytton.

Scuff

Scuff \Scuff\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Scuffed; p. pr. & vb. n. Scuffing.] [See Scuffle.] To walk without lifting the feet; to proceed with a scraping or dragging movement; to shuffle.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
scuff

1768, "to walk (through or over something) without raising the feet," from Scottish, probably from a Scandinavian source related to Old Norse skufa, skyfa "to shove, push aside," from PIE *skeubh- "to shove" (see shove (v.)). Meaning "injure the surface of" is from 1897. Related: Scuffed; scuffing. As a noun from 1824.

Wiktionary
scuff
  1. Caused by scraping, usually with one's feet. n. The back part of the neck; the scruff. v

  2. To mishit (a shot on a ball) due to poor contact with the ball.

WordNet
scuff
  1. n. a slipper that has no fitting around the heel [syn: mule, mules, scuffs]

  2. the act of scuffing (scraping or dragging the feet)

scuff
  1. v. walk without lifting the feet [syn: drag]

  2. get or become scuffed; "These patent leather shoes scuffed"

  3. mar by scuffing; "scuffed shoes"

  4. poke at with the foot or toe

Usage examples of "scuff".

So I sat, scuffing my heels against the floor and trying to take an interest in what Alake was doing.

Flinx scuffed idly with one booted foot at a patch of delicate dark blue azurite crystals.

He wore a black slouch hat, a black sateen shirt, a vivid red bandanna handkerchief, blue serge pants and a pair of scuffed brown oxfords.

He wore a thick black beard, a black sateen shirt, a bright, red bandanna handkerchief, a black slouch hat, and scuffed brown oxfords.

Here and there were a few scuffs where shrapnel had bounced from the hardened ceramite of the carapace.

It was hard to make out marks in the clumpy, dry earth, but there were depressions that looked like footprints, scuffed areas, places where clods had been overturned, showing their dark undersides.

Vanyel had a moment to register disappointment at the scuffed floor, dusty furnishings, and fuded paint before the leonine Bard at the window-end of the room began the class.

Bent double and howling as I was they had me across the central room and through the other door and into a sparsely furnished office on the other side, where they dropped me on to a stool in front of a scuffed and seedy deal and hardboard desk.

From his black head to his scuffed mockado shoes, Thady Boy was relaxed.

Fenn scuffed the top of a molehill with his shoe as he raced toward his chosen spot.

The shortest wizard frowned, scuffing a white-leather boot across the fire-hardened clay.

She looked back once, to see the deep scuffing footprints she had made in the dust.

Banner and the policeman fell in beside him, their boots scuffing the snow.

There was a scuffing noise inside, followed by a thump, as if a chair had fallen onto a hard floor.

She nodded, scuffing at the grass with the toe of her riding boot, then suddenly turned and raced back to camp.