Dictionary Entry
scuffle
scuffle is a 7-letter English word with 11 senses as intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To strive or struggle with a close grapple; to wrestle in a rough fashion. Face value is 15 in Scrabble and 18 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
7 letters · Scrabble 15 · Words With Friends 18 · 11 senses
Definitions
- 1intransitive verb
To strive or struggle with a close grapple; to wrestle in a rough fashion.
- 2intransitive verb
Hence, to strive or contend tumultuously; to struggle confusedly or at haphazard.
- 3noun
A rough, haphazard struggle, or trial of strength; a disorderly wrestling at close quarters.
- 4noun
Hence, a confused contest; a tumultuous struggle for superiority; a fight.
- 5noun
A child's pinafore or bib.
- 6noun
A garden hoe.
- 7noun
an unceremonious and disorganized struggle
Synonyms
- 8noun
disorderly fighting
- 9noun
a hoe that is used by pushing rather than pulling
- 10verb
fight or struggle in a confused way at close quarters
"the drunken men started to scuffle"
Synonyms
- 11verb
walk by dragging one's feet
"he shuffled out of the room"
"We heard his feet shuffling down the hall"
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