From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
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]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [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.
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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.
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A man may shuffle cards or rattle dice from noon to
midnight without tracing a new idea in his mind.
--Rombler.
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3. To remove or introduce by artificial confusion.
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It was contrived by your enemies, and shuffled into
the papers that were seizen. --Dryden.
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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.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Shuffling \Shuf"fling\, a.
1. Moving with a dragging, scraping step. "A shuffling nag."
--Shak.
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2. Evasive; as, a shuffling excuse. --T. Burnet.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Shuffling \Shuf"fling\, v.
In a shuffling manner.
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