shuffer

It isn't easy for a good man with a road mechanic's knowledge and five years 'experience, racing and otherwise, to place himself nowadays, when any groom can get made a slap-bang "shuffer" for five pounds at a murder-shop, and any old coachman is young enough to put his guv'nor in the ditch.

The Man Who Drove the Car Max Pemberton 1906

"don't-touch-me-or-I-shall-vanish" manner you don't come across often even in Park Lane, and I soon saw that whatever else happened, Joseph, the valet, as they called him, and Lal Britten, the "shuffer," were never going to the North Pole together.

The Man Who Drove the Car Max Pemberton 1906

He said, "Gee whillikens, that's a dandy idee, telephone to bawl the shuffer out with," and "Are them flowers real, the bokay in the vase?"

Free Air Sinclair Lewis 1918

Two months later, when he was helping in the overhauling of a car in the repair-shop, he heard a full-bodied man with a smart English overcoat and a supercilious red face ask curtly of the shop foreman where he could get a "crack shuffer, right away, one that can give the traffic cops something to do for their money."

The Trail of the Hawk A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life Sinclair Lewis 1918

"Now don't try zigzaggin 'around to roll up mileage," says I to the shuffer; "but beat it straight there."

Torchy Sewell Ford 1907

I didn't know whether I was waltzin ', or havin' a joy ride with some biplane shuffer.

Torchy Sewell Ford 1907