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shuffler [shuhf-ler] ExamplesWord Origin noun
- a person who shuffles.
- a person who mixes the cards, as before the deal in a card game.
Origin of shuffler First recorded in 1605–15; shuffle + -er1 Examples from the Web for shuffler Historical Examples of shuffler
What right have you to bear more children to a man who is a liar and a shuffler?
Mrs. Humphry Ward
Then you see clearly I am nothing but a poor creature,—a shuffler, as you said.
Alexandre Dumas, Pere
It was because he ‘was a shuffler, a coward, and a snob—in a word, a man.’
Patrick Braybrooke
And off she went, leaving me much happier than old Shuffler had done.
John Conroy Hutcheson
“Now you are talking sensibly,” the scamp said, as if M. Étienne had been the shuffler.
Bertha Runkle
Word Origin and History for shuffler n.
“shifty person,” 1620s, agent noun from shuffle (v.).