An upscuddle, also spelled upscuttle, is defined in both the Dictionary of American Regional English and the Dictionary of Southern Appalachian English (Bookshop|Amazon) as a type of quarrel. A 1913 reference uses the term this way: “If they...
Amanda in La Mesa, California, wonders why her roommate didn’t recognize scuttlebutt, meaning gossip. The word comes from nautical use, where a scuttlebutt was a cask of drinking water, a butt, with a hole cut in it, from scuttle, to cut a hole...