Crossword clues for shuffling
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.]
To shove one way and the other; to push from one to another; as, to shuffle money from hand to hand.
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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.
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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.
Shuffling \Shuf"fling\, a.
Moving with a dragging, scraping step. ``A shuffling nag.''
--Shak.Evasive; as, a shuffling excuse.
--T. Burnet.
Shuffling \Shuf"fling\, v. In a shuffling manner.
Wiktionary
1 Moving with a dragging, scraping step. 2 evasive n. 1 The act or motion of one who shuffles. 2 The noise created by something moving about. 3 (cx dated English) trickery v
(present participle of shuffle English)
WordNet
Wikipedia
Shuffling is a procedure used to randomize a deck of playing cards to provide an element of chance in card games. Shuffling is often followed by a cut, to help ensure that the shuffler has not manipulated the outcome.
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Usage examples of "shuffling".
It made Addle feel like he was sorting through her mind, opening up certain ideas and shuffling aside others.
But what good were his clubbed hands and shuffling step in the amaranth fields?
Billy Anker, dressed in a vintage EV suit, was shuffling head down towards it with all the grim patience of the physically unfit.
A ripple ran through the arachnid host gathered at the far edge of the plains, an anticipatory shuffling.
Jane was shuffling behind him uncertainly, also holding a belaying pin but not sure what to do.
Instead of shuffling between residences, the kids, Allison and Eddie, were to remain in the family home and the Coxes would alternate, moving in and out every few days.
Underwood, a crawling, shambling, shuffling, ignorant demagogue who had set a new standard of judicial honor and dignity.
This duologue had, of course, left Wilbert Cream a bit out of it, just painted on the backdrop as you might say, and for some moments, knitting his brow, plucking at his moustache, shuffling the feet and allowing the limbs to twitch, he had been giving abundant evidence that in his opinion three was a crowd and that what the leafy glade needed to make it all that a leafy glade should be was a complete absence of Woosters.
And then from beyond the blank wall beside which I lay I heard the shuffling of feet, the snarling of grim beasts, the clank of metal accoutrements, and the heavy breathing of a man.
Scuz shuffling through the door, stepping on the frayed ends of his,shoelaces and scratching his balls, which was easy to do given the shiny baggy gabardine pants ready to wear through.
All gobbledygook to Harris, as he watched the men shuffling to their stations.
A young groom appeared with his wooden shoes filled with straw, shuffling about on the marble floor like a mangy dog on a Gobelin tapestry.
At the same time, way down below, something out of sight went clanking across the forest floor, shuffling, as if chained and gyved and fettered in iron.
While he waited, he spent each day shuffling rhythmically around the entrance of the operations tent, making boisterous wisecracks to everybody who came by and jocosely calling Sergeant Towser a lousy son of a bitch every time Sergeant Towser popped out of the orderly room.
Ryan saw that Lox was shuffling her feet, and was just beginning to lower her arms.