scuffle
verb (used without object)
to struggle or fight in a rough, confused manner.
scuffler
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a word derived from
scuffle.
Example Sentences
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Grammy-winning Nashville musician Buddy Miller is talking about his mid-1970s days as an Austin, Texas, scuffler.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 14, 2014
Linda Manz, a street-corner scuffler with old eyes, whose half-deaf mother worked as a cleaning woman in Manhattan, tells about her first film role as Richard Gere's kid sister in Days of Heaven.
From Time Magazine Archive
A street-smart scuffler busts out of the back alleys Tom Waits was growling.
From Time Magazine Archive
At 27, he is a street-smart scuffler who writes knowingly of dingy bars, all-night diners and down-and-outers on the make.
From Time Magazine Archive
Paw was bound I'd ride the Horse with the scuffler all day, but he gee'd too short an' I arranged to tumble off'n him, an' Paw cuffled me foot some.
From Two Little Savages Being the adventures of two boys who lived as Indians and what they learned by Ernest Thompson Seton
