different between shuffling vs dragging
shuffling
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /???fl???/
Verb
shuffling
- present participle of shuffle
Noun
shuffling (plural shufflings)
- The act or motion of one who shuffles.
- 2000, Alan Bennett, Writing Home
- Jane Gibson taught the cast the movements of the various creatures they were representing: the linear shufflings of the hedgehogs, the dozy lollopings of the rabbits, the sinuous dartings of the weasel and so on.
- 2000, Alan Bennett, Writing Home
- 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 […]
- 2011, John O'Loughlin, Two Sides of the Same Coin
- (dated) trickery
- 1906, 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) […]
- 1906, Rudyard Kipling, Puck of Pook's Hill
Adjective
shuffling (comparative more shuffling, superlative most shuffling)
- Moving with a dragging, scraping step.
- evasive
- 1712, Jonathan Swift, The History of John Bull
- a shuffling excuse
- 1712, Jonathan Swift, The History of John Bull
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dragging
English
Etymology
From drag +? -ing.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /?d?æ???/
- Hyphenation: drag?ging
Adjective
dragging (comparative more dragging, superlative most dragging)
- That which drags.
Derived terms
- draggingly
Noun
dragging (plural draggings)
- gerund of drag: an instance of something being dragged.
Verb
dragging
- present participle of drag
Derived terms
- frame-dragging
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