shuffling
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
203 Moby Thesaurus words for "shuffling":
Micawberish, 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, 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
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