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Shuffling vs Rolling - What's the difference?

shuffling | rolling |

As verbs the difference between shuffling and rolling

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

As nouns the difference between shuffling and rolling

is that shuffling is the act or motion of one who shuffles while rolling is the act by which something is rolled.

As an adjective shuffling

is moving with a dragging, scraping step.

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

    rolling

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • Staggered in time and space; used with blackout, brownout, introduction.

    • Synonyms

    * rowling

    Derived terms

    * rolling in dough, rolling in money * rolling introduction * rolling stock

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which something is rolled.
  • * 2007 , Greg Patent, ?Dave McLean, A Baker's Odyssey
    • Refrigerating the dough between rollings and foldings also makes the dough easy to handle and prevents the butter from becoming too soft.