What's the difference between scoffing and scuffing?
Scoffing
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Scoff
Example Sentences:
(1) When in February Jeb Bush announced 21 foreign policy advisers , a list that included 17 people from his brother George W Bush’s team, critics scoffed.
(2) Isolationist?” scoffed McKeon, a former chairman of the House armed services committee whom Saudi Arabia recently hired as a lobbyist .
(3) The rebels scoffed at suggestions by Downing Street that David Cameron would use the pause in the bill to try and win round more Tory MPs before the government tries to revive the measure in the autumn.
(4) Obviously it should be scoffed down in a box set, like a Supersize V Superskinny obese person's enormo-breakfast, before a period of lying green-faced in a darkened room, listening to experimental jazz, muttering, "Carrie can't let another mistake happen!
(5) Francisco Moreno, an unemployed bookkeeper, scoffed at Spanish leaders' calls on the public to be patient.
(6) The cable goes on to note that the British high commission in Harare "scoffed at the very idea".
(7) I remember them finishing second in the league with Ranieri and the team was upcoming with young players like John Terry and Frank Lampard, who were the players that contributed to the success of Chelsea .” In the past Mourinho has scoffed at Ranieri’s managerial record and the relationship between the pair became particularly sour when both men managed in Italy , Mourinho at Internazionale and Ranieri at Juventus and then Roma.
(8) Last week, grid operators warned the phase-out could result in winter blackouts – a prospect Merkel scoffed at .
(9) Lawson insisted her lifestyle was "normal" and that while the enviable kitchen on her TV show was not her own, those were definitely her real children darting in and out of the room, scoffing down ricotta cakes with grilled radicchio baked by their picture-perfect mother.
(10) Now it is Holland who will be confident, even if Van Gaal scoffed at suggestions that they are now favourites and admitted it is unlikely that Nigel de Jong will be available after he was removed in the fifth minute.
(11) Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, among the few Republicans joining former GOP presidential nominee John McCain of Arizona in calling for Guantánamo to be closed, scoffed at the idea that the government can't find a way to hold Guantánamo prisoners in the United States.
(12) Try surfing lessons and deep-sea rafting before scoffing whisky-marinated Arctic char and cloudberry cheesecake at the quayside Børsen Spiseri fish restaurant.
(13) When I got to the part about how every other doctor I saw that year said I was fine, physically speaking, and had referred me to a psychiatrist, they scoffed knowingly and protectively.
(14) Critics scoffed that it was out of date before it began because it was obvious to them that magnetic levitation would be the future of train travel.
(15) Colin Firth has pulled out of the forthcoming film Paddington, where he was to voice the beloved marmalade-scoffing bear of the title.
(16) "Oh, all that rubbish about Muriel being poisoned by a kipper in Glastonbury," he scoffed.
(17) In my best Australian, total buggeration.” Prideaux scoffed at the theory shared by some local people that big landowners secretly favoured HS2 because they will make millions.
(18) During a trip to Kiev, US secretary of state John Kerry claimed Moscow was “working hard to create a pretext for Russia to invade further,” and “hiding its hand behind falsehoods, intimidation and provocations.” Kerry also scoffed at reports of a news conference held by Vladimir Putin in which he appeared to deny a Russian military presence in Crimea.
(19) After earlier eliciting applause when he thanked Tony Abbott for his service, Turnbull was scoffed at when he declared: “We are not run by factions.” Laughter and derision rose from the floor.
(20) In 2008, Putin scoffed at claims by a Moscow-based tabloid that he would marry former Olympic gymnast Alina Kabayeva, known for her "incredible flexibility".
Scuffing
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Scuff
Example Sentences:
(1) What a complete mess - a miscued shot, scuffed clearance, and uncontrolled toe-punt as he fell - but a decisive mess all the same."
(2) He is famously fastidious, too, once refusing to give a fellow player a lift after training in case he scuffed the leather seats of the new Becksmobile.
(3) The Arsenal forward attempted a Panenka, scuffed it badly, and scored anyway as the goalkeeper dived to his left.
(4) Moffat, who likes a pop from distance, winds up and drives a scuffed shot past the Colorado post.
(5) A case report is described of a patient who developed severe hypercalcemia during slow continuous arterio-venous ultrafiltration (SCUF).
(6) Danny Welbeck rolled the ball to Wayne Rooney who was in acres of space just 12 yards from the Bayern goal, but the Manchester United No10 scuffed a shot wide when he should have done much better.
(7) By analyzing the scuffed surfaces of the metatarsal bars, the physician can determine whether or not the bars are firm and thick enough and in the proper position to relieve and divert pressure from the metatarsal heads.
(8) 3.34pm BST 34 mins: Brilliant build up play by Suarez outside the box, as he drops a shoulder to create some space, then shimmies past one defender, but his left-footed shot is scuffed and straight to Krul for an easy save.
(9) The Celtic full-back Adam Matthews, allegedly a transfer target for Swansea City, reached the byline after a surging run down the right flank but he undermined his efforts with a scuffed cutback which the goalkeeper Dusan Kuciak comfortably gathered.
(10) At least it would have been forgivable had he managed to hit the target, instead of scuffing a tame effort the wrong side of Mignolet’s right-hand upright.
(11) Open Mon-Sat 10am-6pm, plus Sun noon-6pm in July and August The Oxford Bar Photograph: Alamy When the Inspector Rebus ITV series was relaunched in 2006, with Ken Stott stepping into the scuffed brogues of John Hannah, there was a feeling they had finally got the right man to play Ian Rankin's bruised copper.
(12) He was teed up by Gervinho, who had put the fear into Colombia with another dribble, but Kalou scuffed straight at Ospina from 18 yards.
(13) As it was, United were lucky Arnautovic, having scored a beauty, could not make it 3-0 after he ran clear on 36 minutes and a traumatic first half for Van Gaal was summed up by Daley Blind trying a cross from the left, scuffing it out of play and ending up on his backside.
(14) After a mild bout of playground scuffing, the ball's eventually hacked clear, Heskey playing a big part, Peter McGushin will be no doubt pleased to hear.
(15) Moyes was not the only person to put his hands to his head in disbelief when Osman, under no pressure, scuffed his shot wide.
(16) Iatrogenic damage to the temporomandibular joint included scuffing of the articular surfaces of the glenoid fossa and articular eminence (31.8%), scuffing of the condylar articular surface (9%), one disc perforation (4.5%) and one perforation of the medial capsule (4.5%).
(17) Khodorkovsky, wearing a scuffed black jacket, and Lebedev, in a white tracksuit top, whispered to each other inside the enclosed dock and ignored the judge as he said the court had established their guilt.
(18) In this way, Scarlett's death might serve a purpose, finally puncturing that quasi-colonial arrogance so endemic in a certain stratum of UK society - that our children can go off anywhere and somehow their Britishness, class and a scuffed copy of Lonely Planet will protect them, decades of increasingly cultured and sophisticated holidays having resulted in a generation of nomad-naifs who seem to think that the entire world is just one big, safe, fluffy Centre Parc, policed by the friendly ghost of Michael Palin.
(19) Then Sterling slipped Bony in and he scuffed a shot wide.
(20) True to character, they rallied with only a scuffed shot preventing Houghton from scoring and Germany’s Tabea Kemme surviving English claims that she should have conceded a handball penalty.