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Shuffling

noun

Walking with a slow dragging motion without lifting your feet. Synonyms: shamble, shambling, shuffle.

The act of mixing cards haphazardly. Synonyms: make, shuffle.

Shuffle

verb

(past & past part. shuffled; pres. part. shuffling)

Walk by dragging one's feet. Synonyms: scuffle, shamble. "We heard his feet shuffling down the hall"

Move about, move back and forth.

Mix so as to make a random order or arrangement. Synonyms: mix, ruffle.

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"Shuffling" Quotes from Famous Books

... quibble. The idea is of shuffling as in making a promise with what is called a "mental reservation." "Palter with us in a double sense" is the famous expression in Macbeth, V, viii, 20, and it brings out clearly the meaning ...

— The New Hudson Shakespeare: Julius Caesar • William Shakespeare

... the bed, pulled out the snake and flung it, still coiled, to the center of the room, whence with a harsh, shuffling sound it slid across the polished floor till stopped by the wall, where it lay without motion. It was a stuffed snake; its ...

— The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Vol. II: In the Midst of Life: Tales of Soldiers and Civilians • Ambrose Bierce

... scraped together enough to give a portion to his child (as the rumour ran) of a few hundreds—whom had he injured?—whom had he imposed upon? The contributors had enjoyed their sight for their pennies. What if after being exposed all day to the heats, the rains, and the frosts of heaven—shuffling his ungainly trunk along in an elaborate and painful motion—he was enabled to retire at night to enjoy himself at a club of his fellow cripples over a dish of hot meat and vegetables, as the charge was gravely brought against him by a clergyman ...

— The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb, Volume 2 • Charles Lamb

... at it aghast, it reared itself on its haunches after the manner of an ape, and leered piteously at me. Then, shuffling forward, it rolled over, and lay sprawled out like some ungainly turtle—and wallowed, as for warmth, in the cold grey ...

— Scottish Ghost Stories • Elliott O'Donnell

... hole in the door, which he hoped to enlarge enough soon, to enable him to escape. He had not much time, however, for thought; for the giant and his wife soon came in. By peeping out a little, he could just see their great feet shuffling over the ...

— The Last of the Huggermuggers • Christopher Pierce Cranch

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