'Shuffling' definitions:
Definition of 'shuffling'
(from WordNet)
Definition of 'Shuffling'
From: GCIDE
- 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]
Definition of 'Shuffling'
From: GCIDE
- Shuffling \Shuf"fling\, v. In a shuffling manner. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Shuffling'
From: GCIDE
- 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]
Synonyms of 'shuffling'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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,
- Micawberish,
- 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