scuffle

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   fight or struggle in a confused way at close quarters

   The two drunks started to scuffle.

Simplified etymology

Scuffle, recorded from the late 16th century, is related to shuffle and shove through the same Germanic root.

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”).

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