Meaning of Shuffling | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The act or motion of one who shuffles.
2. The noise created by something moving about.
3. Trickery.
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Examples

“As I lay⟳ waiting I could hear⟳ a sort⟳ of murmurousness beyond the door. It seemed composed of whimperings, slitherings, and shufflings, punctuated occasionally by a raised voice in the distance.”

“Jane Gibson taught the cast⟳ the movements of the various creatures they were representing: the linear shufflings of the hedgehogs, the dozy lollopings of the rabbits, the sinuous dartings of the weasel and so on.”

“He would also have⟳ been exposed to the coughings and shufflings, comings and goings, questions and answers, wailings and slammings, snivellings and sneezings, etc., which figured so prominently in the reference room […]”

“Then he warmed to it, and smoothly set⟳ out all his shifts, malices, and treacheries, his extreme boldnesses (he was desperate bold); his retreats, shufflings, and counterfeitings (he was also inconceivably a coward) […]”

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