shuffling5 definitions found shuffling - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 : Shuffle \Shuf"fle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Shuffled; p. pr. & vb. n. Shuffling.] [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. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] A man may shuffle cards or rattle dice from noon to midnight without tracing a new idea in his mind. --Rombler. [1913 Webster] 3. To remove or introduce by artificial confusion. [1913 Webster] It was contrived by your enemies, and shuffled into the papers that were seizen. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] Shuffling \Shuf"fling\, a. 1. Moving with a dragging, scraping step. "A shuffling nag." --Shak. [1913 Webster] 2. Evasive; as, a shuffling excuse. --T. Burnet. [1913 Webster] Shuffling \Shuf"fling\, v. In a shuffling manner. [1913 Webster] shuffling - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) : shuffling n 1: walking with a slow dragging motion without lifting your feet; "from his shambling I assumed he was very old" [syn: shamble, shambling, shuffle, shuffling] 2: the act of mixing cards haphazardly [syn: shuffle, shuffling, make] shuffling - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 : 203 Moby Thesaurus words for "shuffling": Micawberish, adrift, afloat, alternating, alternation, ambling, amorphous, backward, bickering, boggling, capricious, captious, captiousness, cautious, caviling, changeable, changeful, chicane, chicanery, choplogic, circumspect, claudicant, convulsion, crawling, creeping, creeping like snail, dallying, delaying, deliberate, derangement, desultory, deviable, dilatory, dillydallying, disarrangement, discomposure, dislocation, disorder, disorganization, disturbance, dizzy, dodging, easy, easygoing, eccentric, equivocating, equivocation, equivocatory, erratic, evasion, evasive, faltering, fast and loose, fencing, fickle, fitful, flagging, flickering, flighty, flitting, fluctuating, fluctuation, foot-dragging, freakish, gentle, giddy, gradual, hairsplitting, halting, hedging, hobbled, hobbling, idle, impetuous, impulsive, inconsistent, inconstant, indecisive, indolent, infirm, insanity, irregular, irresolute, irresponsible, lackadaisical, laggard, lagging, languid, languorous, lax, lazy, leisurely, limping, lingering, logic-chopping, loitering, lumbering, mazy, mercurial, misarrangement, moderate, moody, nit-picking, oscillation, paltering, parrying, pendulation, perturbation, pettifoggery, petty, picayune, poking, poky, prevarication, procrastinating, procrastinative, procrastinatory, pussyfooting, quibbling, rambling, relaxed, reluctant, remiss, restless, roving, sauntering, scatterbrained, seesawing, shapeless, shifting, shifty, sidestepping, slack, slothful, slow, slow as death, slow as molasses, slow as slow, slow-crawling, slow-foot, slow-going, slow-legged, slow-moving, slow-paced, slow-poky, slow-running, slow-sailing, slow-stepped, sluggish, snail-paced, snaillike, spasmodic, spineless, staggering, strolling, subterfuge, teeter-tottering, teetering, tentative, tergiversation, toddling, tortoiselike, tottering, trichoschistic, trichoschistism, trifling, trivial, trudging, turtlelike, unaccountable, uncertain, uncontrolled, undependable, undisciplined, unfixed, unhurried, unpredictable, unreliable, unrestrained, unsettled, unstable, unstable as water, unstaid, unsteadfast, unsteady, vacillating, vacillation, vagrant, variable, variation, vicissitude, vicissitudinary, vicissitudinous, volatile, waddling, wandering, wanton, wavering, wavery, wavy, wayward, whimsical, wishy-washy |