shuffler
nounUK /ˈʃʌflə/ · US /ˈʃʌflɚ/
Etymology From shuffle + -er.
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.
- '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!'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:
- He was abject and a shuffler in the very height of his prosperity.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: