scuffle

FREQ #25922 ★☆☆☆☆

vi. 扭打, 混战, 拖着脚走, 敷衍了事 n. 扭打, 混战, 拖着脚走

发音

UK /ˈskʌfəl/
AU

词形变化

scuffles 复数 scuffles 三单 scuffling 现在分词 scuffled 过去式 scuffled 过去分词

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A rough, disorderly fight or struggle at close quarters.

  2. 2.

    Poverty; struggle.

    俚语
  3. 3.

    A child's pinafore or bib.

    古体
  4. 1.

    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)

v.
  1. 1.

    To fight or struggle confusedly at close quarters.

    不及物
  2. 2.

    To walk with a shuffling gait.

    不及物
  3. 3.

    To make a living with difficulty, getting by on a low income, to struggle financially.

    俚语
  4. 1.

    To work the soil surface for weeding, etc.

    植物学 商务

    Near-synonyms: (sometimes synonymous) scarify, cultivate, grub; weed

词汇关系

名词

同义词 7

hassle scramble tussle dogfight Dutch hoe rough-and-tumble scuffle hoe

上位词 7

fight fighting battle struggle combat scrap hoe
动词

同义词 3

shuffle tussle shamble

上位词 4

fight walk struggle contend

下位词 2

drag scuff

相关短语

scuffle hunter scuffle hunters scuffle hoe 推拉锄 scuffle hoes

词源

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”).

来源：wiktionary