scuffed

• Rhymes: -ʌft

scuffed

1. past participle of scuff

   I scuffed my shoe on the door.

scuffed (comparative more scuffed, superlative most scuffed)

1. Referring to something that has been scratched or marked by contact with another object.

   I bought a scuffed skateboard from a second-hand store.

   • 1986, John le Carré, A Perfect Spy:

     I have one photograph of her and there have been times—though no longer, I swear it, she is dead for me—when I would have given my soul for just one more. I found it in an old scuffed Bible when I was Tom's age, in a suburban mansion we were hastily vacating.