LekhoriLekhoriTo scrape the feet while walking.
To scrape and roughen the surface of (shoes, etc.
To hit lightly, to brush against.
The lawns and gardens had been scuffed away.
A mark left by scuffing or scraping.
Someone left scuff marks in the sand.
The sound of a scuff or scrape.
All you could hear was the rhythmic scuff of Mr. Stink’s battered brogues as he walked slowly along the road
From Scots scuff (“to touch lightly, graze, hit”), of obscure origin. Perhaps from Old Norse skúfa (“to shove, push aside”), from Proto-Germanic *skeubaną (“to shove”). Or, perhaps imitative. More at ...
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A scurf; a scale.