scuffler2 (skufler)

[ scuffy (skuf'i), a. [ hat; a scuffy book.-2. Shabby-looking; out at-elbows; seedy: as, a scuffy fellow; a scuffy appearance. [Scotch or colloq. in both uses.] scuft (skuft), n. [Also corruptly scuff and scruff; held by the scuft of his neck, " Down-stairs came Emily,... dragging after her the unwilling Keeper,. but growling low and savagely all the time. Mrs. Gaskell , Charlotte Brontë, xii. skulk, skulker.