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shuffler|ˈʃʌflə(r)|
[f. shuffle v. + -er1.]
†1. One who mixes up or jumbles. Obs.
1611Cotgr., Brouilleur, a..disorderly shuffler, or mingler of things together.
2. One who acts in a shifty or evasive manner; a slippery, shifty person. In first quot. transf.
1621Bp. R. Montagu Diatribæ 321 If it be..that this first Tithe is euery where stiled by the name of Tithes payed at Ierusalem: your second Tithe, for ought I see, may goe stand by for a shuffler, or it must bee confounded with the first. 1629H. Burton Truth's Tri. 46 See this crafty shuffler how hee can packe this close. 1723Waterland 2nd Vind. Christ's Div. 157 Unless He were the greatest Prevaricator and Shuffler imaginable. 1836Lytton Athens (1837) II. 520 Sophocles in private life was a profligate, and in public life a shuffler, and a trimmer. 1883Manch. Exam. 26 Nov. 5/2 If [he] is not the meanest and most pitiful shuffler who ever stood on a platform.
†3. Cant. ? A drinker. Obs.
1642Tom Nash his Ghost title-p., To the three scurvy Fellowes of the upstart Family of the Snufflers, Rufflers and Shufflers. 1652R. Brathwait Barnabies Summons, For all Malaga men, called Vintners, Sack-drawers..Tub-Taysters Snuffers, Rufflers,..Shufflers,..Suck-spigots, Spewterers.
4. One who shuffles cards.
1894Maskelyne Sharps & Flats 154 If the sharp is a fine shuffler. |