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Webster 1913 Edition
Shuffling
Shuf′fling
,Adj.
1.
Moving with a dragging, scraping step.
“A shuffling nag.” Shak.
2.
Evasive;
as, a
. shuffling
excuseT. Burnet.
Shuf′fling
,Verb.
In a shuffling manner.
Webster 1828 Edition
Shuffling
SHUF'FLING
,ppr.
1. Moving by little shoves one way an the other; changing the places of cards; prevaricating; evading; playing tricks.
2. a. Evasive; as a shuffling excuse.
SHUF'FLING
,Noun.
1. The act of throwing into confusion, or of changing the relative position of things by shoving or motion.
2. Trick; artifice; evasion.
3. An irregular gait.
Definition 2024
shuffling
shuffling
English
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.
- 2011, John O'Loughlin, Two Sides of the Same Coin
- He would also have been exposed to the coughings and shufflings, comings and goings, questions and answers, wailings and slammings, snivellings and sneezings, etc., which figured so prominently in the reference room […]
- 2011, John O'Loughlin, Two Sides of the Same Coin
- (dated) trickery
- Rudyard Kipling, Puck of Pook's Hill
- Then he warmed to it, and smoothly set out all his shifts, malices, and treacheries, his extreme boldnesses (he was desperate bold); his retreats, shufflings, and counterfeitings (he was also inconceivably a coward) […]
- Rudyard Kipling, Puck of Pook's Hill
Adjective
shuffling (comparative more shuffling, superlative most shuffling)
- Moving with a dragging, scraping step.
- Shakespeare
- A shuffling nag.
- Shakespeare
- evasive
- T. Burnet
- a shuffling excuse
- T. Burnet