Etymology

sclaff

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Today it means: A poor golf shot, where the club hits the ground before it hits the ball. Full definition →

Scots sclaff
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The story

  1. Scots · borrowed fromsclaff“to slap, shuffle”
  2. English todaysclaff

Borrowed from Scots sclaff (“to slap, shuffle”), of onomatopoeic origin.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.