different between scuffle vs ruckus

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.

Translations

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

Etymology

Recorded since 1890; probably a blend of ruction (“disturbance”) +? rumpus (“disturbance, fracas”).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /???k?s/
• Rhymes: -?k?s

Noun

ruckus (plural ruckuses)

1. A noisy disturbance and/or commotion.
2. A row, fight.

Synonyms

• ruction
• rumpus
• uproar

Derived terms

• ruckusy

Translations

See also

• raucous

References

• Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967
• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “ruckus”, in Online Etymology Dictionary