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▪ I. ˈshuffling, vbl. n.
[f. shuffle v. + -ing1.]
1. The action of moving the feet along the ground without lifting them; the dragging and scraping of feet over a surface.
double-shuffling: the performance of a double shuffle.
1608Dekker Dead Tearme Wks. (Grosart) IV. 51 What shuffling, what shouldering, what Justling. 1859Dickens Haunted House viii. 48 There ensued such toe-and-heeling, and buckle-covering, and double-shuffling. 1869‘Lewis Carroll’ Phantasmagoria 99 Old shufflings on the sanded floor. 1873R. Broughton Nancy ii, A noise of shuffling and scrambling to their feet on the part of the congregation.
2. The re-arrangement of the cards in a pack.
1579J. Northbrooke Dicing (1843) 142 They haue such sleightes in sorting and shuffling of the cardes. 1591Florio 2nd Fruites 69 What a shooffling doo you keepe with those cardes? 1659H. Nevile (title), Shuffling, Cutting, and Dealing, in a Game at Pickquet. 1796Burke Regic. Peace iv, The cutting and shuffling of Cards. 1840Hood Miss Kilmansegg 2002 The rattling of dice and the shuffling of cards. 1856Lt. Col. B. Whist player (1858) 18 In shuffling, the cards must be above and free from the table.
fig.c1652J. Smith Sel. Disc. iv. 89 That all the shuffling and cutting of atoms could produce such a divine piece of wisdom as this is.
3. The shifting of a thing about or from one place to another; change of the position (of things) with reference to each other; mixing or jumbling together.
1602Shakes. Ham. iv. vii. 135 So that with ease, Or with a little shuffling, you may choose A Sword vnbaited. 1661Boyle Scept. Chym. ii. 162 A new shufling and Disposition of the Component Particles of a body. 1691Ray Creation (1714) 37 The fortuitous shuffling together of its component Materials. 1692R. L'Estrange Fables xli. 43 This Shuffling of the Bat in the Paw of the Weazle. 1890Hardwicke's Sci. Gossip XXVI. 143/2 After some sidling of the head and shuffling of the wings. 1891Athenæum 8 Aug. 189/3 ‘Charybdis’, the title-piece..seems as if it might have come to its pre-eminence merely by a chance shuffling of the leaves.
b. Printing. (See quot.)
1841Savage Dict. Printing, Shuffling. This is..part of the process of Knocking-up, when the paper is laid in heaps, after having been taken down from the poles, to make it lie even at the edges.
4. Shifty or evasive dealing or conduct; † occas. evasion (of something).
1579W. Wilkinson Confut. Fam. Love 4 Herein you do but rayse dust with your shufflyng. 1602Shakes. Ham. iii. iii. 61 There is no shuffling, there the Action lyes In his true Nature. 1646J. Hall Horæ Vac. 113 There is rather a shuffling of approaching dangers, then preventing them from afarre. a1716South Serm. (1744) II. 112 The ambiguity and shuffling of a partial historian. 1823Lamb Elia ii. Poor Relations, The truth must out without shuffling. 1842Miall Nonconf. II. 1 That species of shuffling, which goes by the name of expediency. 1884Truth 13 Mar. 375/2 All the rest is shuffling and subterfuge.
▪ II. ˈshuffling, ppl. a.
[f. shuffle v. + -ing1.]
1. That shuffles in walking; that drags the feet over the ground without lifting them. Hence, of a walk, pace, gait: Consisting of or characterized by a shuffle.
1596Shakes. 1 Hen. IV, iii. i. 135 The forc't gate of a shuffling Nagge. 1609Old Meg of Herefordsh. (1816) 1 The courts of kings for stately measures:..the country for shufling dances. 1697Collier Ess. Mor. Subj. ii. (1703) 45 The hurry of the pursuit will make but a shuffling pace. 1727Somervile Happy Disapp. 57 He knew him by his shuffling pace. 1815Elphinstone Acc. Caubul Introd. (1842) I. 9 A kind of shuffling trot. 1848Dickens Dombey ii, He was a strong..round-shouldered, shuffling, shaggy fellow. 1889Jessopp Coming of Friars ii. 57 A ragged, shuffling tramp on the road.
2. Of persons: Given to shifty or evasive action or behaviour.
1616R. Cocks Diary (Hakl. Soc.) I. 94 A shuffling fello, not worthy water for his hier. 1674Essex Papers (1890) I. 182, I find them very backward & shufling in all their Paymts. 1715Addison Tryal Count Tariff, The Court found him a false, shuffling, prevaricating rascal. 1833H. Martineau Manch. Strike i. 12 The mean-spirited, shuffling knave. 1878Lecky Eng. in 18th Cent. II. viii. 439 So timid in danger, and so shuffling in difficulty.
b. Of action, conduct, speech: Evasive, shifty.
1644Prynne & Walker Fiennes' Trial 29 Colonell Fiennes.., said in a shuffling manner, I confess he was a Governour de facto, but not de jure. 1660H. More Myst. Godl. v. xvii. 203 They held the Creed in the plain literal sense thereof without any shuffling Allegories. 1712Arbuthnot John Bull iii. x, Though he durst not directly break his appointment, he made many a shuffling excuse. 1787Jefferson Writ. (1859) II. 171 The shuffling conduct of Barrois. 1831Scott Ct. Rob. xxi, The wily, ambidexter, shuffling policy of the Emperor. 1851Thackeray Eng. Hum. iii. (1876) 246 Dick made a shuffling excuse that he could not see her.
3. That shuffles cards.
1777[T. Swift] Gamblers 11 Great Father of the Shuffling Crew! [margin Mr. Hoyle]. |