(v. i.) To strive or struggle with a close grapple; to wrestle in a rough fashion.
(v. i.) Hence, to strive or contend tumultuously; to struggle confusedly or at haphazard.
(n.) A rough, haphazard struggle, or trial of strength; a disorderly wrestling at close quarters.
(n.) Hence, a confused contest; a tumultuous struggle for superiority; a fight.
(n.) A child's pinafore or bib.
(n.) A garden hoe.
Example Sentences:
(1) The protesters were confronted by a much larger group of pro-Kremlin activists, which led to scuffles.
(2) When the owners of Manchester City finally managed to persuade Pep Guardiola to oversee the next stage of their masterplan it is fair to say they probably did not expect to be approaching Christmas scuffling with a team of Watford’s limitations for their first league win at home in almost three months.
(3) The trials of those arrested over the scuffles on 6 May 2012 have become known as the Bolotnaya affair, after the square in which the clashes took place.
(4) Heather Titley said she saw Cameron grab the collar of Noye's shirt and scuffle with him at the Swanley interchange of the M25.
(5) One BNP supporter who was injured in a scuffle said: "I've put my best suit on today and come out for a peaceful demonstration and this is what's happened.
(6) Passengers scuffled with a man suspected of leaving the bag before the blast went off but failed to detain him.
(7) A minor scuffle erupts and four white shirts immediately converge on the referee and after a minor argument both players are booked.
(8) Minor scuffles were reported, but the ranks of riot police mostly looked on as largely peaceful and white-collar crowd - variously estimated at 10,000 to 70,000 - assembled without a permit in People's Square.
(9) Mostly, I thought about being at Barack Obama’s inauguration ; not at the ceremony itself, but the back of the crowd approximately three miles away, in frigid DC weather and surrounded by thousands of other scuffling, freezing, depressed-looking people, trying to squeeze a sense of occasion from what felt like being at the back of a demo.
(10) "Mubarak is the solution," chanted the crowd, some of whom also briefly scuffled with the supporters of people killed during the 2011 uprising.
(11) Scuffles break out and four protesters are arrested, bundled off to the station in the same tuk-tuks they arrived in.
(12) Surveillance video taken from a Ukrainian airport shows Klymenko and the country's chief prosecutor scuffling with guards who try to detain them and overturning a metal detector gate as they try to reach their plane.
(13) Chad's Hissène Habré removed from Senegal court as scuffle breaks out Read more Habré had refused legal representation, saying he did not recognise the court’s jurisdiction, and vowed not to cooperate with the trial.
(14) More pressure from LA, a scuffle behind the net and Dominic Williams cross-checks King and he will go to the box.
(15) Fifteen people were arrested a day after the results when scuffles broke out between police and protesters outside Downing Street.
(16) The voice of the survivors is being ignored, the concerns of the people and many clergy in Chile are being ignored, and the safety of children in this diocese is being left in the hands of a bishop about whom there are grave concerns for his commitment to child protection.” Barros was installed as bishop of the southern Chilean diocese of Osorno last weekend amid unprecedented opposition, and scuffles inside the cathedral by protesters who say he is unfit to lead.
(17) According to the weekly magazine Friday, the scuffle took place in the early hours of 16 January, when the wrestler should have been preparing for his bout later the same day.
(18) eKathimerini.com reports that "a few dozen pensioners" demanded a meeting with health minister Andreas Lykourentzos, and briefly scuffled with police.
(19) There were scuffles in Cambridge as crowds attempted to storm the university's Senate House.
(20) Over the past few years, the two teams have developed a bit of a dislike for each other stemming from a preseason game that was called early after a tackle by former KC midfielder Roger Espinoza led to a scuffle between the two teams.
Snuffle
Definition:
(v. i.) To speak through the nose; to breathe through the nose when it is obstructed, so as to make a broken sound.
(n.) The act of snuffing; a sound made by the air passing through the nose when obstructed.
(n.) An affected nasal twang; hence, cant; hypocrisy.
(n.) Obstruction of the nose by mucus; nasal catarrh of infants or children.
Example Sentences:
(1) The present results suggested that these P. multocida isolates were the causal agent of rabbits rhinitis (snuffles) in Japan.
(2) Inside was the world's biggest map, depicting all of New York state, laid out in sparkling terrazzo, across which troupes of acrobats and dancers would perform, and the animals of the kiddies' petting zoo would snuffle.
(3) In a double-blind study, diphenylpyraline (Lergobine) was given to 63 patients whose main symptoms were stuffiness of the nose, increased secretion of mucus, snuffling, sneezing and redness of the eyes.
(4) The younger infants had a higher incidence of jaundice and mortality, whereas joint swellings, skin rash, snuffles, anemia, and periosteal reaction visible in x-rays of long bones were typical findings among the older group.
(5) So, I will have to continue trudging down to one or other of the local hospitals for treatment, and get the snuffles, or worse, on the way.
(6) With silhouetted palms at sunset, capybaras bathing in streams, vivid birdlife and viscachas (a type of chinchilla) snuffling around the site at dusk, it’s a photographers’ paradise.
(7) "And Ben," notes his wife, indicating the spaniel snuffling at their feet.
(8) You are in the system, safe from the unregulated badlands of Nickelodeon and its oceans of advertising, the looping hours of Peppa Pig and American imports that run through the night so that other, feral children (not yours) can watch cartoons at 2am while snuffling from bowls of refined sugar.
(9) The other day I had a bit of a snuffle and Justine thought it wouldn’t be a good idea for me to go for a walk in Primrose Hill.
(10) The presence of "snuffles" has traditionally been ascribed, unproven, to an upper respiratory tract infection despite there being no other signs of an acute infection in the majority of infants with "snuffles".
(11) A counterimmunoelectrophoresis (CIE) test was applied to serotype 35 isolates of type D Pasteurella multocida recovered from 32 cases of atrophic rhinitis (in swine) and 3 cases of snuffles (in rabbits).
(12) She has some new bogeymen – shareholders – and is so determined they won't get a groat of her money, that she's sitting snuffling and shivering in her kitchen, by the hob, on the cusp of pneumonia, refusing to turn on her heating.
(13) The previously well-known snuffles, pseudoparalysis and bizarre radiological changes should now be brought to the attention of perhaps more than one generation of physicians who underwent their medical training at the time when the disease was a rarity.
(14) The presence of excess nasal mucus causing noisy nasal breathing with an obvious mucus discharge (snuffles) is a common problem in infants in the first three months of life.
(15) The results suggest that in some infants "snuffles" may be associated with impaired vasomotor control.
(16) Pigs snuffle at the detritus littering its margins.
(17) Four of fifty infants in the control group compared to 22 of 50 in the snuffles group demonstrated postural hypotension (Chi square 16.84, p less than 0.001).
(18) snuffles and being "chesty") in well infants during the first months of life with 32% of the control group having snuffles and 35% described as "chesty".
(19) At night, if I hear him snuffle or whimper in his cot, I sneak over using an iPhone as an impromptu light source so I can see if he needs resettling.
(20) Hepatic and splenic enlargement were present in 12 cases, and nine children had the "snuffles".