Etymograph

English

roughscuff

From rough + scuff.

A compound of rough + scuff

Proto-Germanic *rūhaz ‘rough, hairy’

Old English rūh ‘rough’

Middle English rough ‘rough’

English rough

Scots scuff ‘to touch lightly, graze, hit’

English scuff

Today it means

noun The lowest class of people; the rabble.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “roughscuff”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.

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