shuffler

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

shuffle +‎ -er

Noun[edit]

shuffler (plural shufflers)

  1. A person who shuffles.
  2. A machine that shuffles.
    an automatic card shuffler
  3. Any of the three common American scaup ducks.
  4. (dated) A trickster.
    • 1836 March – 1837 October, Charles Dickens, “(please specify the chapter name)”, in The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, London: Chapman and Hall, [], published 1837, →OCLC:
      '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!'
    • 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 44, in The History of Pendennis. [], volumes (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, [], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:
      He was abject and a shuffler in the very height of his prosperity.

Norwegian Bokmål[edit]

Verb[edit]

shuffler

  1. present of shuffle