▪ I. shuff, n.
(ʃʌf)
An inferior class of brick.
| 1843 Civil Engin. & Arch. Jrnl. VI. 349/2 The principal varieties of bricks were called ‘malm paviors’, ‘stocks’, ‘grizzles’, ‘places’, and ‘shuffs’. 1843 Mech. Mag. XXXIX. 192 The shuffs were sold for an inferior price governed by their quality, as they were frequently quite rotten. |
▪ II. shuff, a. dial. (see Eng. Dial. Dict.).
[dial. var. of shy a.]
Shy.
| 1688 Bunyan Christ as Adv. Wks. 1852 I. 173, I am dull and stupid that way; will not Christ be shuff and shy with me because of this? |
▪ III. shuff
obs. form of shove v.1