The word "scuff" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it as a verb to describe the action of accidentally brushing against something or someone and leaving marks or scratches behind. For example: "He scuffed the wall with his shoulder as he walked past."
First, on a hard abrasive pitch, the seamers can bowl "cross seam" so that the ball will generally land off the seam and so scuff it, which occasionally, if it lands right, will mean the seam gets knocked up too.
A still grimy pew with scuff marks from the boots of sleeping rescue workers is especially moving.
Nein, danke Don't shoot the cucumber Arrest and revival ReprintsThe false alarm about Spanish cucumbers will further scuff Germany's image in a neighbourhood where it has not been popular lately.
Mr Redmayne charts the progress of Hawking's physical degeneration with infinite subtlety, and it's heart-wrenching to watch as his body deflates, his voice thickens, and his feet scuff ever more sloppily along the pavement.
In that first spell in charge of Slovenia, Katanec seemed a lucky coach: opposing goalkeepers would scuff clearances, as Ukraine's Oleksandr Shovkovskiy did in the play-off for Euro 2000 qualification, or forwards who hadn't scored in 52 internationals would produce a goal at a key moment, as Mladen Rudonja did in the 2002 World Cup qualifying play-off against Romania.
As head of "reliability" at Nokia, which employs more than 120,000 people worldwide and made 468 million phones last year (more than a third of the world's mobiles), Smith and his team are part of a global league of engineers and white-coated technicians who make sure they scratch, scuff, crack and snap their phones so we don't have to.
Just before the five minutes of first-half stoppage time, Caballero pushed a low cross towards Ledley who might have done better than scuff his shot over the bar and Pardew, at least, was convinced his side ought to have been awarded a penalty when Eliaquim Mangala appeared to wrestle with Zaha in the area.
Yet as the ruling comes into effect, we can only hope that the assertion of an individual's right to resize their digital footprint does not scuff over too much of the web, and filter out information of legitimate public interest.
Australia opener David Warner has all but accused the South Africa wicketkeeper A B de Villiers of ball tampering, intimating that the keeper used his gloves to scuff the ball to produce the reverse swing which enabled the Proteas' fast bowlers to win the second Test on Sunday and level the three-match series at 1-1.
The slightest mark, scuff or dirt can be the difference between a refund of your full deposit and a small scrap of it.
"Stuart Broad stood on the ball, and then Jimmy Anderson collected the ball, whether it was the next over or the over after, and started playing around the area where Stuart Broad had created the scuff marks.
