单词 | shuffling |
释义 | shufflingn. 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. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > progressive motion > walking > [noun] > manner of walking > shuffling shuffling1608 scuffling1797 shuffle1847 society > leisure > dancing > types of dance or dancing > other dances > [noun] dance of Macabre?c1430 springc1450 lege de moya1529 bobc1550 lusty gallant1569 duret1613 fading1613 huckler1617 ground-measure1621 entry1631 slatter de pouchc1640 ballo1651 Irish trot1651 omnium gatheruma1652 clutterdepouch1652 upspring1654 passacaglia1659 shuffle1659 passacaille1667 flip-flap1676 chaconne1685 charmer1702 Cheshire-round1706 Louvre1729 stick dance1730 white joke1730 baby dance1744 Nancy Dawson1766 fricassee1775 bumpkin1785 Totentanz1789 Flora('s) dance1790 goombay1790 egg-dance1801 supper dance1820 Congo dance1823 slip-jig1829 bran-dance1833 roly-poly1833 Congo1835 mazy1841 furry1848 bull-dance1855 stampede1856 double-shuffling1859 frog dance1863 hokee-pokee1873 plait dance1876 slow dancing1884 snake dance1895 beast dance1900 soft-shoe1900 cakewalk1902 floral dance1911 snake dance1911 apache dance1912 grizzly bear1912 jazz dance1917 jazz dancing1917 jazz1919 wine-dance1920 camel-walk1921 furry dance1928 snake-dance1931 pas d'action1936 trance dancing1956 touch dance1965 hokey-cokey1966 moonwalk1969 moonwalking1983 Crip Walk1989 mapantsula1990 1608 T. Dekker Dead Tearme sig. D4v What shuffling, what shouldering, what Iustling. 1859 All Year Round Extra Christmas No., 13 Dec. 48 There ensued such toe-and-heeling, and buckle-covering, and double-shuffling. 1869 ‘L. Carroll’ Phantasmagoria 99 Old shufflings on the sanded floor. 1873 R. 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. ΚΠ ?1577 J. Northbrooke Spiritus est Vicarius Christi: Treat. Dicing 110 They haue such sleightes in sorting and shuffling of the Cardes. 1591 J. Florio Second Frutes 69 What a shooffling doo you keepe with those cardes? 1659 H. Neville (title) Shuffling, cutting, and dealing, in a game at pickquet. a1797 E. Burke Fourth Let. Peace Regicide Directory France in Writings & Speeches (1991) IX. 84 The cutting and shuffling of Cards. 1841 T. Hood Miss Kilmansegg iv, in New Monthly Mag. 61 265 The rattling of dice and the shuffling of cards. 1856 A. F. Blyth Whist-player 20 In shuffling, the cards must be above and free from the table. 3. a. 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. ΘΚΠ the world > space > place > placing or fact of being placed in (a) position > [noun] > placing or being placed in different position transposition1538 shuffling1604 transplacing1615 translocation1617 transposal1695 relocating1789 relocation1834 translocalization1883 re-siting1916 repositioning1931 the world > relative properties > relationship > variety > [noun] > incongruous mixture > mixing or jumbling together shuffling1604 pell-melling1792 jumbling1852 1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet iv. vii. 110 So that with ease, Or with a little shuffling, you may choose A sword vnbated. View more context for this quotation 1661 R. Boyle Sceptical Chymist ii. 162 A new shufling and Disposition of the Component Particles of a body. 1691 J. Ray Wisdom of God 19 The fortuitous shuffling together of its component Materials. 1692 R. L'Estrange Fables xli. 43 This Shuffling of the Bat in the Paw of the Weazle. 1890 Hardwicke's Sci.-gossip 26 143/2 After some sidling of the head and shuffling of the wings. 1891 Athenæum 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. 1841.) ΘΚΠ society > communication > printing > preparatory processes > [noun] > arranging paper to even out edges shuffling1841 1841 W. Savage Dict. Art of 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; †occasionally evasion (of something). ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > inaction > not doing > abstaining or refraining from action > [noun] > avoiding an action or condition beflying1340 eschewingc1374 voidinga1398 flight1398 refusing?a1400 avoidinga1513 eschewa1542 eviting1541 umschewing1547 shunning1549 shuffling1579 eschewal1583 avoidance1610 evitation1626 evading1646 avoidal1695 eschewance1842 elusiveness1873 avoidment1882 sidestepping1902 the world > action or operation > ability > skill or skilfulness > cunning > [noun] > crafty dealing > evasion or subterfuge shifting1559 shuffling1579 wriggling1866 stalling1927 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > evasive deception, shiftiness > [noun] > in action shuffling1579 paltering1580 boggling1640 prevarication1656 whifflinga1677 wriggling1866 caffling1877 sidestepping1902 pussyfooting1956 society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > [noun] > actions or tactics > dealing, cutting, or shuffling shuffling1579 deal1607 shuffle1651 lifting1674 cut1729 misdeal1797 riffle1862 ruffle1872 long deal1893 handout1904 1579 W. Wilkinson Confut. Familye of Loue f. 4 Herein you do but rayse dust with your shufflyng. 1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet iii. iii. 61 There is no shufling, there the action lies In his true nature. View more context for this quotation 1646 J. Hall Horæ Vacivæ 113 There is rather a shuffling of approaching dangers, then preventing them from afarre. a1716 R. South Serm. Several Occasions (1744) XI. 112 The ambiguity and shuffling of a partial historian. 1823 C. Lamb in London Mag. May 534/2 The truth must out without shuffling. 1842 E. Miall in Nonconformist 2 1 That species of shuffling, which goes by the name of expediency. 1884 Truth 13 Mar. 375/2 All the rest is shuffling and subterfuge. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online June 2021). shufflingadj. 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. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > progressive motion > walking > [adjective] > having specific manner of walking > shuffling shuffling1598 shauchling1826 shuffly1926 1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 iii. i. 131 The forc't gate of a shuffling nag. View more context for this quotation 1609 Old Meg of Hereford-shire sig. A4 The courts of kings for stately measures:..the Country for shufling dances. 1695 J. Collier Misc. upon Moral Subj. 43 The Hurry of the Pursuit will make but a shuffling Pace. 1727 Somervile Happy Disapp. 57 He knew him by his shuffling pace. 1815 M. Elphinstone Acct. Kingdom Caubul Introd. 7 A kind of shuffling trot. 1846 C. Dickens Dombey & Son (1848) ii. 13 He was a strong..round-shouldered, shuffling, shaggy fellow. 1888 A. Jessopp Coming of Friars ii. 57 A ragged, shuffling tramp on the road. 2. a. Of persons: Given to shifty or evasive action or behaviour. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > ability > skill or skilfulness > cunning > [adjective] > evasive shifting1581 shuffling1616 purty1682 evasive1725 shifty1837 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > evasive deception, shiftiness > [adjective] slipperc1000 hinderc1200 slidderya1250 covert1340 unwrast1393 slyc1440 slippery1555 fetching1570 shifting1581 as slippery as an eel1601 roundabout1608 corner-creeping1610 shuffling1616 prevaricatory1645 prevaricative1657 sliverly1674 whifflinga1680 sneak-pasty1681 slid1719 evasive1725 shauchling1755 shifty1837 slab-bridged1845 sneaky1861 pussy-footed1893 sidewinding1902 slithery1902 pussyfooting1926 1616 R. Cocks Diary (1883) I. 94 A shuffling fello, not worthy water for his hier. 1674 in O. Airy Essex Papers (1890) I. 182 I find them very backward & shufling in all their Paymts. 1715 J. Addison Trial of Ct. Tariff The Court found him a false, shuffling, prevaricating rascal. 1833 H. Martineau Manch. Strike (new ed.) i. 12 The mean-spirited, shuffling knave. 1878 W. E. H. Lecky Hist. Eng. 18th Cent. II. viii. 439 So timid in danger, and so shuffling in difficulty. b. Of action, conduct, speech: Evasive, shifty. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > ability > skill or skilfulness > cunning > [adjective] > evasive > specifically of action or conduct shuffling1644 elusory1646 elusive1719 evasive1744 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > evasive deception, shiftiness > [adjective] > of actions, words, etc. sly1387 sinister?1455 slippery1579 shuffling1644 evasorious1687 evasive1744 shiftya1863 1644 W. Prynne & C. Walker True Relation Prosecution N. Fiennes 29 Colonell Fiennes.., said in a shuffling manner, I confess he was a Governour de facto, but not de jure. 1660 H. More Explan. Grand Myst. Godliness v. xvii. 203 They held the Creed in the plain literal sense thereof without any shuffling Allegories. 1712 J. Arbuthnot John Bull Still in Senses x. 43 Tho' he durst not directly break his Appointment, he made many a shuffling Excuse. 1787 T. Jefferson Writings (1859) II. 171 The shuffling conduct of Barrois. 1831 W. Scott Count Robert x, in Tales of my Landlord 4th Ser. II. 255 The wily, ambidexter, shuffling policy of the Emperor. 1853 W. M. Thackeray Eng. Humourists iii. 158 Dick made a shuffling excuse that he could not see her. 3. That shuffles cards. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > [adjective] > shuffling shuffling1777 1777 T. Swift Gamblers 11 Great Father of the Shuffling Crew! [margin Mr. Hoyle]. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < |
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