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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)
- A rough, disorderly fight or struggle at close quarters.
- (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)
- (intransitive) To fight or struggle confusedly at close quarters.
- (intransitive) To walk with a shuffling gait.
- (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)
- 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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uproar
English
Etymology
Calque of Dutch oproer or German Aufruhr. Possibly influenced by roar.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /??p???/
- (US) IPA(key): /??p????/
Noun
uproar (countable and uncountable, plural uproars)
- Tumultuous, noisy excitement. [from 1520s]
- Loud confused noise, especially when coming from several sources.
- A loud protest, controversy, outrage
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:commotion
Derived terms
- uproarious
- uproarish
Translations
Verb
uproar (third-person singular simple present uproars, present participle uproaring, simple past and past participle uproared)
- (transitive) To throw into uproar or confusion.
- c. 1605, William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act IV, Scene 3,[1]
- […] had I power, I should
- Pour the sweet milk of concord into hell,
- Uproar the universal peace, confound
- All unity on earth.
- c. 1605, William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act IV, Scene 3,[1]
- (intransitive) To make an uproar.
- 1661, William Caton, The Abridgment of Eusebius Pamphilius’s Ecclesiastical History, London: Francis Holden, 1698, Part II, p. 110, note,[2]
- […] through their Tumultuous Uproaring have they caused the peaceable and harmless to suffer […]
- 1824, Thomas Carlyle (translator), Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship and Travels by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, New York: A.L. Burt, 1839, Book 4, Chapter 8, pp. 210-211,[3]
- […] the landlady entering at this very time with news that his wife had been delivered of a dead child, he yielded to the most furious ebullitions; while, in accordance with him, all howled and shrieked, and bellowed and uproared, with double vigor.
- 1828, Robert Montgomery, The Omnipresence of the Deity, London: Samuel Maunder, Part II, p. 56,[4]
- When red-mouth’d cannons to the clouds uproar,
- And gasping hosts sleep shrouded in their gore,
- 1829, Mason Locke Weems, The Life of General Francis Marion, Philadelphia: Joseph Allen, Chapter 12, p. 106,[5]
- Officers, as well as men, now mingle in the uproaring strife, and snatching the weapons of the slain, swell the horrid carnage.
- 1661, William Caton, The Abridgment of Eusebius Pamphilius’s Ecclesiastical History, London: Francis Holden, 1698, Part II, p. 110, note,[2]
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