Scuffle
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late 16th century (as a verb): probably of Scandinavian origin; compare with Swedish skuffa ‘to push’; related to shove and shuffle.
wiktionary
Possibly of North Germanic/Scandinavian origin; compare Swedish skuff(“a push”) and skuffa(“to push”), from the Proto-Germanic base *skuf-(skuƀ), from Proto-Indo-European *skewbʰ-, see also Lithuanian skùbti(“to hurry”), Polish skubać(“to pluck”), Albanian humb(“to lose”).
A borrowing from Dutch schoffel.
etymonline
scuffle (v.)
"to push or fight in a disorderly manner," 1570s, probably a frequentative form of scuff, of Scandinavian origin. Related: Scuffled; scuffling. As a noun c. 1600, from the verb.
