shuffle Meaning, Definition & Usage
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noun the act of mixing cards haphazardly
make; shuffling.
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noun walking with a slow dragging motion without lifting your feet
shambling; shamble; shuffling.
- from his shambling I assumed he was very old
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verb walk by dragging one's feet
scuffle; shamble.
- he shuffled out of the room
- We heard his feet shuffling down the hall
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verb move about, move back and forth
- He shuffled his funds among different accounts in various countries so as to avoid the IRS
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verb mix so as to make a random order or arrangement
ruffle; mix.
- shuffle the cards
WordNet
Shuf"fle transitive verb
Etymology
Originally the same word asWordforms
Definitions
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To shove one way and the other; to push from one to another; as, to .shuffle money from hand to hand -
To mix by pushing or shoving; to confuse; to throw into disorder; especially, to change the relative positions of, as of the cards in a pack. A man may shuffle cards or rattle dice from noon to midnight without tracing a new idea in his mind. Rombler.
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To remove or introduce by artificial confusion. It was contrived by your enemies, and shuffled into the papers that were seizen. Dryden.
Shuf"fle intransitive verb
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To change the relative position of cards in a pack; as, to .shuffle and cut -
To change one's position; to shift ground; to evade questions; to resort to equivocation; to prevaricate. I muself, . . . hiding mine honor in my necessity, am fain to shuffle. Shak.
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To use arts or expedients; to make shift. Your life, good master, Must shuffle for itself. Shak.
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To move in a slovenly, dragging manner; to drag or scrape the feet in walking or dancing. The aged creature came Shuffling along with ivory-headed wand. Keats.
Syn. -- To equivicate; prevaricate; quibble; cavil; shift; siphisticate; juggle.
Shuf"fle noun
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The act of shuffling; a mixing confusedly; a slovenly, dragging motion. The unguided agitation and rude shuffles of matter. Bentley.
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A trick; an artifice; an evasion. The gifts of nature are beyond all shame and shuffles. L'Estrange.