Meaning

noun disorderly fighting

noun a hoe that is used by pushing rather than pulling

noun an unceremonious and disorganized struggle

originPossibly of North Germanic/Scandinavian origin; compare Swedish skuff (“a push”) and skuffa (“to push”), from the Proto-Germanic base *skuf- (skuƀ), from Proto-Indo-European *skewbʰ-, see also Lithuanian skùbti (“to hurry”), Polish skubać (“to pluck”), Albanian humb (“to lose”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0