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scuffle

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.

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tumult

English

Etymology

From Old French tumulte, from Latin tumultus (noise, tumult).

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?tju?.m?lt/, /?t?u?.m?lt/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /?tu?.m?lt/
  • Rhymes: -?lt

Noun

tumult (plural tumults)

  1. Confused, agitated noise as made by a crowd.
  2. Violent commotion or agitation, often with confusion of sounds.
  3. A riot or uprising.

Synonyms

  • uproar
  • ruckus

Related terms

Translations

Verb

tumult (third-person singular simple present tumults, present participle tumulting, simple past and past participle tumulted)

  1. (obsolete) To make a tumult; to be in great commotion.

Danish

Etymology

From Latin tumultus (noise, tumult).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tumult/, [t?u?mul?d?]

Noun

tumult c (singular definite tumulten, plural indefinite tumulter)

  1. uproar, tumult
  2. riot, disturbance
  3. scuffle

Inflection

Synonyms

  • tummel

Related terms

  • tumultagtig
  • tumultarisk

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch tumult, from Old French tumulte, from Latin tumultus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ty?m?lt/
  • Hyphenation: tu?mult
  • Rhymes: -?lt

Noun

tumult n (plural tumulten)

  1. tumult

Derived terms

  • tumultueus

Polish

Etymology

From Latin tumultus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?tu.mult/

Noun

tumult m inan

  1. tumult (noise as made by a crowd)
    Synonym: zgie?k
  2. (archaic) tumult (violent commotion or agitation)
    Synonym: zamieszki

Declension

Derived terms

  • (adjective) tumultowy

Further reading

  • tumult in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
  • tumult in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology

From Latin tumultus

Noun

tumult n (plural tumulturi)

  1. tumult

Synonyms

  • larm?
  • zarv?
  • agita?ie

Related terms

  • tumultos, tumultuos

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