shuffling

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The act or motion of one who shuffles.
    — As I lay waiting I could hear a sort of murmurousness beyond the door. It seemed composed of whimperings, slitherings, and shufflings, punctuated occasionally by a raised voice in the distance.
  2. The noise created by something moving about.
    — 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 […]
  3. Trickery. dated
    — 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) […]
动词 v.
  1. present participle and gerund of shuffle form-of,gerund,participle,present
形容词 adj.
  1. Moving with a dragging, scraping step.
    — This world I do renounce, and in your sights / Shake patiently my great affliction off.
  2. Evasive.
    — a shuffling excuse

词形变化

shufflings plural more shuffling comparative most shuffling superlative

词汇关系

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