Shuffling vs Shaffling - What's the difference?
shuffling | shaffling |
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
trickery
* Rudyard Kipling, Puck of Pook's Hill
Moving with a dragging, scraping step.
* Shakespeare
evasive
* T. Burnet
As verbs the difference between shuffling and shaffling
is that shuffling is present participle of lang=en while shaffling is present participle of shaffle.As a noun shuffling
is the act or motion of one who shuffles.As an adjective shuffling
is moving with a dragging, scraping step.shuffling
English
Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)- 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)
Adjective
(en adjective)- A shuffling nag.
- a shuffling excuse