shuffler

See also: Shuffler

English

Etymology

From shuffle +‎ -er.

Noun

shuffler (plural shufflers)

1. A person who shuffles.
2. A machine or algorithm 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. […], volume (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.

Anagrams

• hufflers

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

shuffler

1. present of shuffle