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SHUFFLING

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Walking with a slow dragging motion without lifting your feet

Example:

from his shambling I assumed he was very old

Synonyms:

shamble; shambling; shuffle; shuffling

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("shuffling" is a kind of...):

walk; walking (the act of traveling by foot)

Derivation:

shuffle (walk by dragging one's feet)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The act of mixing cards haphazardly

Synonyms:

make; shuffle; shuffling

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("shuffling" is a kind of...):

reordering (a rearrangement in a different order)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "shuffling"):

reshuffle; reshuffling (shuffling again)

riffle (shuffling by splitting the pack and interweaving the two halves at their corners)

Holonyms ("shuffling" is a part of...):

card game; cards (a game played with playing cards)

Derivation:

shuffle (mix so as to make a random order or arrangement)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

-ing form of the verb shuffle

Credits

 Context examples: 

All these were blotted out by a grotesque and terrible nightmare brood—frowsy, shuffling creatures from the pavements of Whitechapel, gin-bloated hags of the stews, and all the vast hell's following of harpies, vile-mouthed and filthy, that under the guise of monstrous female form prey upon sailors, the scrapings of the ports, the scum and slime of the human pit.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Mutation of the gene is associated with hydrocephalus due to stenosis of the aqueduct of Sylvius (HSAS), mental retardation, aphasia, shuffling gait, and adducted thumbs syndrome (MASA or CRASH syndrome), spastic paraplegia 1, X-linked and agenesis of the corpus callosum, X-linked, partial and may contribute to intestinal aganglionosis in Hirschsprung disease.

(L1CAM wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

There was a pause of shuffling feet and hard breathing, broken by the thud of a tremendous body blow from Wilson, which the smith stopped with the utmost coolness.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The sailors now crowded boldly aft, grinning and shuffling, to watch the pummelling of the hated Cockney.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Aylward at this order came shuffling forward amid the trees, and in an instant the two men were clinging in each other's arms, laughing and shouting and patting each other in their delight; while old Sir Nigel came running with his sword, under the impression that some small bickering had broken out, only to embrace and be embraced himself, until all three were hoarse with their questions and outcries and congratulations.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

They went upstairs to get ready while we three men stood there shuffling the hot pebbles with our feet. A silver curve of the moon hovered already in the western sky. Gatsby started to speak, changed his mind, but not before Tom wheeled and faced him expectantly.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)