| 单词 | to get upon the skuff |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto get upon the skuff a. Scottish. A slight glancing blow; a ‘brush’ with the hand. to get upon the skuff, to get to scuffling. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > impact > striking > [noun] > glancing blow glacec1400 scuff1824 sideswipe1857 1824 J. Mactaggart Sc. Gallovidian Encycl. (at cited word) The scuff is the wind, as it were; the scuff of a cannon ball, blows a man to pieces. 1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. at Scufe Scuff. 1. The act of grazing, or touching lightly. 2. A stroke, apparently a slight one, Banffs. 1839 D. M. Moir Life Mansie Wauch (rev. ed.) xxiii. 292 After giving his breeches-knees a skuff with his loof, to dad off the stoure. 1854 H. Miller My Schools & Schoolmasters (1858) 337 We got upon the skuff after you left us. 1899 J. Strang Lass of Lennox xv ‘She was a dacent woman Lucky’... ‘She was a' that’, says he, gie'in' his een a bit scuff wi' the back o' his haun'. < as lemmas |
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