shuffle

shuffle: shuffle ► VERB 1) walk by dragging one's feet along or without lifting them fully from the ground. 2) restlessly shift one's position. 3) rearrange (a pack of cards) by sliding them over each other quickly. 4) (shuffle through) sort or look through (a number of things) hurriedly. 5) move (people or things) around into different positions or a different order. 6) (shuffle off/out of) get out of or avoid (a responsibility or obligation).

► NOUN 1) a shuffling movement, walk, or sound. 2) a quick dragging or scraping movement of the feet in dancing. 3) an act of shuffling a pack of cards. 4) a change of order or relative positions; a reshuffle. 5) a facility on a CD player for playing tracks in an arbitrary order.

DERIVATIVES shuffler noun.

ORIGIN perhaps from Low German schuffeln 'walk clumsily' , also 'deal dishonestly, shuffle (cards)' .

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Synonyms:

Confuse, jumble, mix, shift, intermix, throw into disorder / Prevaricate, quibble, equivocate, cavil, dodge, palter, evade, sophisticate / Struggle, shift, make shift, Trick, quibble, prevarication, cavil, sophism, evasion, artifice, fraud, shuffling, subterfuge, pretence, pretext, ruse

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shuffle — [shuf′əl] vt. shuffled, shuffling [Early ModE, prob. < or akin to LowG schuffeln, to walk clumsily, shuffle cards < base of SHOVE] 1. a) to move (the feet) with a dragging or shoving gait b) to perform (a dance) with such steps 2. to mix… … English World dictionary
Shuffle — Shuf fle, v. i. 1. To change the relative position of cards in a pack; as, to shuffle and cut. [1913 Webster] 2. To change one s position; to shift ground; to evade questions; to resort to equivocation; to prevaricate. [1913 Webster] I myself … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Shuffle — Shuf fle, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Shuffled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Shuffling}.] [Originally the same word as scuffle, and properly a freq. of shove. See {Shove}, and {Scuffle}.] 1. To shove one way and the other; to push from one to another; as, to… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
shuffle — [v1] move along lazily drag, limp, muddle, pad, scrape, scuff, scuffle, shamble, straggle, stumble, trail; concept 151 Ant. run shuffle [v2] rearrange, mix up break the deck*, change, change the order, confuse, disarrange, disarray, discompose,… … New thesaurus
Shuffle — Shuf fle, n. 1. The act of shuffling; a mixing confusedly; a slovenly, dragging motion. [1913 Webster] The unguided agitation and rude shuffles of matter. Bentley. [1913 Webster] 2. A trick; an artifice; an evasion. [1913 Webster] The gifts of… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
shuffle — index beat (pulsate), bilk, equivocate, evade (deceive), exchange, palter, prevaricate Burton s Legal Thes … Law dictionary

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