scuffle
名词 n.
动词 v.
英 /ˈskʌfəl/
英文释义
名词 n.
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A rough, disorderly fight or struggle at close quarters.
— The Dog leaps upon the Serpent, and Tears it to Pieces; but in the Scuffle the Cradle happen'd to be Overturn'd: […]
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A type of hoe, manipulated by both pushing and pulling, with a sharp blade parallel with the worked surface; an instance of this type.
— Near-synonyms: collinear hoe, collineal hoe (loosely synonymous)
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Poverty; struggle.
— But even on the scuffle / The cleaner's press was in my jeans
- A child's pinafore or bib.
动词 v.
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To fight or struggle confusedly at close quarters.
— Certainly a gallant man had rather fight to great diſadvantages for number and place in the field in an orderly way, then ſcuffle with an undiſciplined rabble.
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To work the soil surface for weeding, etc.
— Near-synonyms: (sometimes synonymous) scarify, cultivate, grub; weed
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To walk with a shuffling gait.
— But shiftings and readjustments ensued, as they are sure to do with a walking-party. Cope presently found himself scuffling through the thin grass and the briery thickets alongside the young business-man.
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To make a living with difficulty, getting by on a low income, to struggle financially.
— Once a good friend of mine, a fine hoofer who was having trouble getting bookings, ran up to that tree, gave it a big smack, and yelled “Lawd please make me a pimp, any kind of a pimp, long as I’m pimpin’. I’m tired of scufflin’ and my feet are too long outa work.”
词汇关系
词源
词源 1
Possibly of North Germanic/Scandinavian origin; compare Swedish skuff (“a push”) and skuffa (“to push”), from the Proto-Germanic base *skuf- (skuƀ), from Proto-Indo-European *skewbʰ-, see also Lithuanian skùbti (“to hurry”), Polish skubać (“to pluck”), Albanian humb (“to lose”).
词源 2
The noun is a borrowing from Dutch schoffel; the English verb arose via subsequent verbification within English but is also parallel with Dutch schoffelen.
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