SHUFFLING

shamble, shambling, shuffle, shuffling

(noun) walking with a slow dragging motion without lifting your feet; “from his shambling I assumed he was very old”

shuffle, shuffling, make

(noun) the act of mixing cards haphazardly

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Verb

shuffling

present participle of shuffle

Noun

shuffling (plural shufflings)

The act or motion of one who shuffles.

The noise created by something moving about.

(dated) trickery

Adjective

shuffling (comparative more shuffling, superlative most shuffling)

Moving with a dragging, scraping step.

evasive

Source: Wiktionary

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Shuf"fling, a.

1. Moving with a dragging, scraping step. "A shuffling nag." Shak.

2. Evasive; as, a shuffling excuse. T. Burnet.

Shuf"fling, v.

Definition: In a shuffling manner.

SHUFFLE

Shuf"fle, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Shuffled; p. pr. & vb. n. Shuffling.] Etym: [Originally the same word as scuffle, and properly a freq. of shove. See Shove, and Scuffle.]

1. To shove one way and the other; to push from one to another; as, to shuffle money from hand to hand.

2. To mix by pushing or shoving; to confuse; to throw into disorder; especially, to change the relative positions of, as of the cards in a pack. A man may shuffle cards or rattle dice from noon to midnight without tracing a new idea in his mind. Rombler.

3. To remove or introduce by artificial confusion. It was contrived by your enemies, and shuffled into the papers that were seizen. Dryden. To shuffe off, to push off; to rid one's self of.

– To shuffe up, to throw together in hastel to make up or form in confusion or with fraudulent disorder; as, he shuffled up a peace.

Shuf"fle, v. i.

1. To change the relative position of cards in a pack; as, to shuffle and cut.

2. To change one's position; to shift ground; to evade questions; to resort to equivocation; to prevaricate. I muself, . . . hiding mine honor in my necessity, am fain to shuffle. Shak.

3. To use arts or expedients; to make shift. Your life, good master, Must shuffle for itself. Shak.

4. To move in a slovenly, dragging manner; to drag or scrape the feet in walking or dancing. The aged creature came Shuffling along with ivory-headed wand. Keats.

Syn.

– To equivicate; prevaricate; quibble; cavil; shift; siphisticate; juggle.

Shuf"fle, n.

1. The act of shuffling; a mixing confusedly; a slovenly, dragging motion. The unguided agitation and rude shuffles of matter. Bentley.

2. A trick; an artifice; an evasion. The gifts of nature are beyond all shame and shuffles. L'Estrange.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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