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Scuffling vs Shuffling - What's the difference?

scuffling | shuffling |

As verbs the difference between scuffling and shuffling

is that scuffling is present participle of lang=en while shuffling is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between scuffling and shuffling

is that scuffling is a confused struggle while shuffling is the act or motion of one who shuffles.

As an adjective shuffling is

moving with a dragging, scraping step.

scuffling

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • a confused struggle

    • shuffling

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act or motion of one who shuffles.
  • The noise created by something moving about.
  • * 2011 , John O'Loughlin, Two Sides of the Same Coin
    • 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
  • trickery
  • * Rudyard Kipling, Puck of Pook's Hill
    • 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)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Moving with a dragging, scraping step.
  • * Shakespeare
    • A shuffling nag.
  • evasive
  • * T. Burnet
    • a shuffling excuse