scuffle

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
scuffle/ˈskʌfl/

▶noun

• 1 a short, confused fight or struggle at close quarters.

• 2 an act or sound of moving in a scuffling manner.

▶verb

• 1 engage in a scuffle.

• 2 move in a hurried, confused, or shuffling way.

– origin C16: prob. of Scand. origin; cf. Swed. skuffa ‘to push’; rel. to shove and shuffle.