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/ʃˈəflɪŋ/ /ʃˈəfˈʊlɪŋ/ Listen

verb

Shuffle v. t. (past & past part. shuffled; pres. part. shuffling)

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."

3.

To remove or introduce by artificial confusion. "It was contrived by your enemies, and shuffled into the papers that were seizen."

To shuffle off, to push off; to rid one's self of.

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

Shuffle 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 myself,... hiding mine honor in my necessity, am fain to shuffle."

3.

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

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."

Synonyms: To equivicate; prevaricate; quibble; cavil; shift; sophisticate; juggle.

Shuffling v. In a shuffling manner.

adjective

Shuffling adj.

1.

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

2.

Evasive; as, a shuffling excuse.

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Etymology of 'Shuffling'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Shuffling" Quotes from Famous Books

... nerves, which came over him at the barracks when he lifted his gun to start. The load on his back was snug and light as he stood there in marching rig; how much heavier and harder it was to grow before he should stand on American soil again, he could not know. Then, the shuffling of many feet and the flutter of a flag outside the stone gates, so strangely like the gates which stand at the entrance of the Land of his Memories—and his Commencement ...

— Stanford Stories - Tales of a Young University • Charles K. Field

... himself, and of course the gas flared up immediately. I do not think that I had ever seen any one more surprised. This power of generating static electricity from their own bodies was naturally a source of immense delight to the Lansdowne children. They loved, after shuffling their feet on the carpet, to creep up to any adult relation and touch them lightly on the ear, a most sensitive spot. There would be a little spark, a little shock, and a little exclamation of surprise. ...

— The Days Before Yesterday • Lord Frederick Hamilton

... slapdash and independent, and decidedly lacking in "that repose which stamps the caste of Vere de Vere". Gwen could never keep still for five seconds, her restless hands were always fidgeting or her feet shuffling, or she was twisting in her chair, or shaking back a loose untidy lock that had escaped from her ribbon. Gwen often did her hair without the aid of a looking-glass, but when she happened to use one the reflection of her own face gave her ...

— The Youngest Girl in the Fifth - A School Story • Angela Brazil

... very good, and so far thou hast not misspoken aught, nor uttered a word unprofitably. Wherefore for this night thou shalt lack neither raiment nor aught else that is the due of a hapless suppliant, when he has met them that can befriend him. But in the morning thou shalt go shuffling in thine own rags, for there are not many mantles here or changes of doublet; for each man hath but one coat. But when the dear son of Odysseus comes, he himself will give thee a mantle and doublet for raiment, and send thee whithersoever thy heart ...

— DONE INTO ENGLISH PROSE • S. H. BUTCHER, M.A.

... a loud barking at this, but there were sounds as if of protest mingled with it, and finally the dog subsided into a howl, and dropped down by the door to wait, a low, shuffling, panting sound coming through the ...

— To Win or to Die - A Tale of the Klondike Gold Craze • George Manville Fenn

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