To employ shifts or evasions; to practise or use indirect methods; to practise or live by fraud, or temporary expedients.

To act in a shifting or evasive manner; to shift one's ground in argument, etc.; to make use of deceitful pretences or shifty answers.

So to shuffle up and down.

intransitive. To prevaricate; to be evasive. Also, to play for time or temporize. Frequently in U.S. colloquial phrase quit stalling (usually…