Shuffle man

[bullpen]

I was at a family reunion at the weekend and the phrase shuffle man came up. Nobody could tell me who or what it is. Can any abers help me please

[plowter]

Doesn't it mean dancer - as in soft shoe shuffle man?

[Quizmonster]

I suspect you may have misheard and the word actually used was 'shovel-man'. That meant a labourer who used pick and shovel in the course of his work.
Alternatively, an early meaning of 'shuffle' was a trick or evasion, so maybe in some dialect a 'shuffle-man' was what we might now call a 'con-man'. (I do hope you never had such a person amongst your family!)