scrummage
Americannoun
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Etymology
Origin of scrummage
Perhaps originally a dialectal variant of scrimmage
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In a less violent, but all the more ridiculous scrummage, two women at an undisclosed Walmart were caught on video getting into a tussling match over a Shark vacuum cleaner.
From Fox News ● Nov. 30, 2019
“If you don’t like to scrummage you’re in the wrong position,” he told the front rows of Munster and Toulouse.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 11, 2019
That yearning also centered on the scrummage – the restart in which each team’s eight forwards link arms and push against their eight opponents to win the ball placed between them.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 18, 2015
Tighthead prop Willem Nel anchored the Scottish scrummage impressively, earning possession and penalties, while opposite number Martin Castrogiovanni infringed three times in the opening seven minutes.
From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2015
Won't you two come up to young Brooke, after locking-up, by the School-house fire, with "Old fellow, wasn't that just a splendid scrummage by the three trees?"
From Tom Brown's School Days by Thomas Hughes
Scored tries in the first and second Test, scrummaged well, carried with the pace and dexterity of a top-class centre but with the power of a beast.
From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2025
The dynamic prop has tirelessly scrummaged, tackled and carried with real intensity.
From BBC ● Mar. 11, 2023
Dwyer claimed England tight-head Dan Cole scrummaged illegally during the win over the Wallabies on Saturday.
From BBC ● Jun. 14, 2016
We stopped their driving maul pretty well and drove them back a few times, we scrummaged well, we got a bit of pressure on their lineout early on, and the back row tackled themselves to a standstill.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 27, 2011
I think we scrummaged well and also the players on the bench like Alasdair Dickinson and Scott Lawson did well when they came on.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 20, 2010
"I think there is theatre that comes in scrummaging, it is what makes rugby union special," he told Rugby Union Weekly.
From BBC ● Feb. 6, 2026
He put in a strong scrummaging display against Argentina in the Lions' opening game that got people talking, especially since veteran Tadhg Furlong was still searching for his form.
From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2025
Nicky Smith was one of those promoted and his scrummaging provided a platform for a vastly improved showing against Ireland.
From BBC ● May 5, 2025
Drill sessions include running, passing, and scrummaging, and for energy the girls chew sugarcane.
From Reuters ● May 30, 2023
The young rustics bat in verdant meadows, The young swells are "scrummaging" out west; They are forming future Graces, Stoddarts, Hadows; They are having larks, which, after all, is best.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, March 15, 1890 by Various
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