SHUFFLING

Pronunciation (US):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does shuffling mean? 

• SHUFFLING (noun)
  The noun SHUFFLING has 2 senses:

1. walking with a slow dragging motion without lifting your feet
2. the act of mixing cards haphazardly

  Familiarity information: SHUFFLING used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SHUFFLING (noun)

Meaning:

Walking with a slow dragging motion without lifting your feet

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

shamble; shambling; shuffling; shuffle

Context example:

from his shambling I assumed he was very old

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

walk; walking (the act of traveling by foot)

Meaning:

The act of mixing cards haphazardly

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

shuffle; make; shuffling

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)