Definitions

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  • verb Present participle of scuffle.
  • noun a confused struggle

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Examples

  • I was in the middle of planning how to hang myself from the light switch on the wall when I felt a kind of scuffling on the other side of the door.

    Dexter in the Dark Lindsay, Jeff 2007

  • I was in the middle of planning how to hang myself from the light switch on the wall when I felt a kind of scuffling on the other side of the door.

    Dexter in the dark Lindsay, Jeff 2007

  • There was a kind of scuffling noise, the rustling of branches, and the crackling of dry sticks.

    Lavengro 2004

  • "I've been kind of scuffling out there and it's nice considering how I've been playing the last couple of days," Truby said.

    National League Baseball - Pirates vs. Astros 2000

  • There was a question, put off, too, like his work, from hour to hour, and silenced by the scuffling, meaningless movements of the day.

    The Divine Fire May Sinclair 1904

  • There was a kind of scuffling noise, the rustling of branches, and the crackling of dry sticks.

    Lavengro The Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest George Henry Borrow 1842

  • There was a kind of scuffling noise, the rustling of branches, and the crackling of dry sticks.

    Lavengro; the Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest George Henry Borrow 1842

  • There was a kind of scuffling noise, the rustling of branches, and the crackling of dry sticks.

    Lavengro The Scholar - The Gypsy - The Priest, Vol. 1 (of 2) George Henry Borrow 1842

  • There was a kind of scuffling noise, the rustling of branches, and the crackling of dry sticks.

    Lavengro the Scholar - the Gypsy - the Priest George Henry Borrow 1842

  • Yeah, you knew I was going to include this, didn't you - kind of scuffling a bit at the moment, but it's early yet ...

    ImpeachBush 2009

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