different between scuffle vs disturbance

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?sk?f?l/
• Rhymes: -?f?l
• Hyphenation: scuf?fle

Etymology 1

Possibly of North Germanic/Scandinavian origin; compare Swedish skuff (“a push”) and skuffa (“to push”), from the Proto-Germanic base *skuf- (sku?), from Proto-Indo-European *skewb?-, see also Lithuanian skùbti (“to hurry”), Polish skuba? (“to pluck”), Albanian humb (“to lose”).

Noun

scuffle (plural scuffles)

1. A rough, disorderly fight or struggle at close quarters.
2. (archaic) A child's pinafore or bib.

Translations

Verb

scuffle (third-person singular simple present scuffles, present participle scuffling, simple past and past participle scuffled)

1. (intransitive) To fight or struggle confusedly at close quarters.
2. (intransitive) To walk with a shuffling gait.
3. (slang) To make a living with difficulty, getting by on a low income, to struggle financially.

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Etymology 2

A borrowing from Dutch schoffel.

Noun

scuffle (plural scuffles)

1. A Dutch hoe, manipulated by both pushing and pulling.

Synonyms

• (Dutch hoe): scuffle hoe

Translations

References

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

English

Alternative forms

• disturbaunce (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English disturbaunce, from Old French destorbance, destourbance, from destourber (“disturb”), from Latin disturb?. Surface analysis disturb +? -ance.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /d??st??bn?s/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /d??st?bn?s/
• Hyphenation: dis?tur?bance

Noun

disturbance (countable and uncountable, plural disturbances)

1. The act of disturbing, being disturbed.
2. Something that disturbs.

   That guy causes a lot of trouble, you know, he's such a disturbance.

3. A noisy commotion that causes a hubbub or interruption.
4. An interruption of that which is normal or regular.
5. (psychology) A serious mental imbalance or illness.

Antonyms

• calmness

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Anagrams

• bedcurtains