Crossword-Solution: SCUFFLE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Scuffle | v. i. | To strive or struggle with a close grapple; to wrestle in a rough fashion. |
| Scuffle | v. i. | Hence, to strive or contend tumultuously; to struggle confusedly or at haphazard. |
| Scuffle | n. | A rough, haphazard struggle, or trial of strength; a disorderly wrestling at close quarters. |
| Scuffle | n. | Hence, a confused contest; a tumultuous struggle for superiority; a fight. |
| Scuffle | n. | A child's pinafore or bib. |
| Scuffle | n. | A garden hoe. |
We have 34 clues for the answer “SCUFFLE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Not quite a brawl | 1 answer |
| Fight that's less than a brawl | 1 answer |
| BAGARRE | 2 answers |
| Minor melee | 2 answers |
| Brief fracas | 2 answers |
| shindy | 11 answers |
| BRIEF TUSSLE | 11 answers |
| Dust up | 12 answers |
| Dust-up | 16 answers |
| fisticuffs | 21 answers |
| scrimmage | 30 answers |
| Grapple | 34 answers |
| bout | 35 answers |
| Tussle | 35 answers |
| BARNEY | 40 answers |
| Ruction | 46 answers |
| bobbery | 46 answers |
| duel | 47 answers |
| Broil | 48 answers |
| Affray | 51 answers |
| Wrestle | 51 answers |
| melee | 52 answers |
| Skirmish | 53 answers |
| Tiff | 54 answers |
| insurrection | 55 answers |
| Engagement | 56 answers |
| Scrap | 57 answers |
| Rumpus | 58 answers |
| Fracas | 61 answers |
| Tumult | 65 answers |
| Brawl | 66 answers |
| controversy | 68 answers |
| Hullabaloo | 68 answers |
| Bustle | 79 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AREET
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with SCUFFLE (5)
All of a sudden Robbers rushed upon them from their hiding-places, and in the scuffle with their owners, wounded with a sword the Mule carrying the treasure, which they greedily seized while taking no notice of the grain.
During the scuffle, I managed, I know not how, to get my pass out, and, without being discovered, put it into the fire.
Not a latent echo in the house, not a squeak and scuffle from the mice behind the panelling, not a drip from the half-thawed water-spout in the dull yard behind, not a sigh among the leafless boughs of one despondent poplar, not the idle swinging of an empty store-house door, no, not a clicking in the fire, but fell upon the heart of Scrooge with a softening influence, and gave a freer passage to his tears.
Now let me.” “Oh, _you_ don’t want to see!” “Now that you treat me so, I _will_ see.” And she put her small hand upon his and a little scuffle ensued, Tom pretending to resist in earnest but letting his hand slip by degrees till these words were revealed: “_I love you_.” “Oh, you bad thing!” And she hit his hand a smart rap, but reddened and looked pleased, nevertheless.
There he was dogged by his confederate, who held Beppo responsible for the loss of the pearl, and he stabbed him in the scuffle which followed.” “If he was his confederate, why should he carry his photograph?” I asked.
Quotes with SCUFFLE (3)
Soul is not even that Crackerjack prize that God and Satan scuffle over after the worms have all licked our bones. That's why, when we ponder--as sooner or later each of us must--exactly what we ought to be doing about our soul, religion is the wrong, if conventional, place to turn. Religion is little more than a transaction in which troubled people trade their souls for temporary and wholly illusionary psychological comfort--the old give-it-up-in-order-to-save-it routine. Re…
Perhaps I am like you. I love the byways, the tiny adventures, the faces that smile for an instant and are gone, a little boy with his face between the railings of a fence, watching the shoes go by. What is he thinking about? The people and their joys and sorrows? No way, he is seeing the shoes, shoes that tramp, limp, scuffle along, and perhaps his greatest concern is the tiny bug they might step on. It is probably the true meaning of compassionate, wondering about people's …
The children are in love but do not know with what. They talk in gibberish, muse themselves into an indefinable pallor, and when they are completely at a loss they invent a language that maddens them. My fish. My hook. My fox. My snare. My fire. You my water. You my current. My earth. You my if. And you my but. Either. Or. My everything... my everything... They push one another, go for each other with their fists and scuffle over a counter-word that doesn't exist.
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Appears in: LAT, New Yorker, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY.
Used 6 times in crossword archives (1991–2024).