different between scuff vs chipping

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sk?f/
• Rhymes: -?f

Etymology 1

From Scots scuff (“to touch lightly, graze, hit”), of obscure origin. Perhaps from Old Norse skúfa (“to shove, push aside”), from Proto-Germanic *skeuban? (“to shove”). Or, perhaps imitative. More at English shove.

Verb

scuff (third-person singular simple present scuffs, present participle scuffing, simple past and past participle scuffed)

1. To scrape the feet while walking.
2. To hit lightly, to brush against.
3. To mishit (a shot on a ball) due to poor contact with the ball.

Derived terms

• scuff mark

Related terms

• scuffle

Translations

Noun

scuff (plural scuffs)

1. (sometimes attributive) A mark left by scuffing or scraping.

   Someone left scuff marks in the sand.

   • 2015, Charles W. Jones, Hydrangeas on the Lanai

     He flung his shoes across the room, their soles leaving black scuffs on the dingy wall.

Related terms

• scuffed

Translations

Further reading

• Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.

Etymology 2

Noun

scuff (plural scuffs)

1. A scurf; a scale.
2. The back part of the neck; the scruff.
   • 1858, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, What Will He Do with It?

     One of the biggest and most redoubted of the Black Family was now in that seat of dignity, and, refusing surlily to yield it at Jasper's rude summons, was seized by the scuff of the neck, and literally hurled on the table in front.

See also

• scoff
• scruff

Anagrams

• Cuffs, cuffs

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t??p??/

Etymology 1

From chip +? -ing.

Verb

chipping

1. present participle of chip

Etymology 2

From Middle English chippyng, chippynge, equivalent to chip +? -ing.

Noun

chipping (countable and uncountable, plural chippings)

1. (countable) A fragment broken off a larger material.
2. (uncountable) The act of breaking something into small fragments, or of removing fragments from pottery etc.