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Scaup vs Shuffler - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between scaup and shuffler

is that scaup is any of three species of small diving duck in the genus aythya while shuffler is a person who shuffles.

scaup

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • Any of three species of small diving duck in the genus Aythya .
  • * {{quote-news, year=2009, date=March 29, author=Deborah Baldwin, title=A Waterside Village With a Big-City Backdrop, work=New York Times citation
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  • (Scotland) ; a bed or stratum of shellfish.
  • Derived terms

    * greater scaup, Aythya marila * lesser scaup, Aythya affinis * New Zealand scaup, Aythya novaeseelandiae

    See also

    * (wikipedia "scaup") * (Aythya) * (Aythya marila) * (Aythya affinis) * (Aythya novaeseelandiae) * (commonslite)

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    shuffler

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person who shuffles.
  • Any of the three common American scaup ducks.
  • A trickster.
  • * Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers
  • 'You—you're a shuffler , sir,' gasped the furious doctor, 'a poltroon—a coward—a liar—a—a—will nothing induce you to give me your card, sir!'