scrummage
Americannoun
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Etymology
Origin of scrummage
Perhaps originally a dialectal variant of scrimmage
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After the speech, I’ll be throwing myself into the scrummage of senior party figures trying to grab as many interviews as I can.
From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2024
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
Tight-heads tend to be lone wolves, who live for the scrummage and the chance to cause the opposition front row pain.
From BBC ● Mar. 13, 2017
Old Brooke comes sweeping round the skirts of the play, and turning short round, picks out the very heart of the scrummage, and plunges in.
From Tom Brown's School Days by Thomas Hughes
The dynamic prop has tirelessly scrummaged, tackled and carried with real intensity.
From BBC ● Mar. 11, 2023
Max Malins impressed with his first international tries while Ellie Genge carried, rucked and scrummaged tirelessly before powering over for England's third.
From BBC ● Feb. 6, 2023
Strange as it may sound, I'll probably have to do a bit of homework before Saturday because I have only ever scrummaged against Paul once, and that was when we were 15.
From BBC ● May 31, 2013
Nine times Perpignan scrummaged and four times they won penalties as the pressure built to a head.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 11, 2010
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
Muir was a key player for John Mitchell's side throughout the World Cup with her destructive ball-carrying and scrummaging.
From BBC ● May 9, 2026
Botterman's scrummaging has improved under Mitchell to earn a regular starting spot, but it is her ability to make turnovers and carry the ball into heavy traffic that are her foremost strengths.
From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2025
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
Master made apprentice suffer in the next Edinburgh scrummaging session.
From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2025
When afternoon school was over, he had to turn out and practise scrummaging with the first fifteen, in view of an important school match which was coming off on the following Saturday.
From The Head of Kay's by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse
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