different between shuffling vs rolling

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???fl???/

Verb

shuffling

1. present participle of shuffle

Noun

shuffling (plural shufflings)

1. 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.

2. 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 […]

3. (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) […]

Adjective

shuffling (comparative more shuffling, superlative most shuffling)

1. Moving with a dragging, scraping step.
2. evasive
   • 1712, Jonathan Swift, The History of John Bull

     a shuffling excuse

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /????l??/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /??o?l??/
• Rhymes: -??l??
• Homophone: Rowling

Adjective

rolling (comparative more rolling, superlative most rolling)

1. (colloquial) Drunk; intoxicated from alcohol, staggering.
2. Staggered in time and space.

   a 90-day rolling business plan

   rolling blackouts or brownouts

3. Moving by turning over and over on an axis.
4. Extending in gentle undulations (of the landscape).
   • 2002, Russell Allen & Michael Romeo, "Part II - Journey to Ithaca" of "The Odyssey", "Incantations of the Apprentice", on Symphony X, The Odyssey.

5. Making a continuous sound.

Synonyms

• (drunk): See Thesaurus:drunk
• (staggered): spaced out, chequerwise
• (moving by turning over repeatedly): spinning, tumbling
• (undulating of the landscape):

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

rolling

1. present participle of roll

Synonyms

• rowling

Derived terms

• get the ball rolling, keep the ball rolling
• rolling in dough, rolling in money

Noun

rolling (plural rollings)

1. 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.