shuffle

[shuf·fle]

To shuffle is to drag your feet slowly along the ground as you walk. A kid might shuffle reluctantly off to his room only after being told five times that it's bedtime.

...

To shove one way and the other; to push from one to another; as, to shuffle money from hand to hand.

Noun
walking with a slow dragging motion without lifting your feet; "from his shambling I assumed he was very old"

Noun
the act of mixing cards haphazardly

Verb
mix so as to make a random order or arrangement; "shuffle the cards"

Verb
walk by dragging one''s feet; "he shuffled out of the room"; "We heard his feet shuffling down the hall"

Verb
move about, move back and forth; "He shuffled his funds among different accounts in various countries so as to avoid the IRS"

...

v. t.
To shove one way and the other; to push from one to another; as, to shuffle money from hand to hand.

v. t.
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.

v. t.
To remove or introduce by artificial confusion.

v. i.
To change the relative position of cards in a pack; as, to shuffle and cut.

v. i.
To change one's position; to shift ground; to evade questions; to resort to equivocation; to prevaricate.

v. i.
To use arts or expedients; to make shift.

v. i.
To move in a slovenly, dragging manner; to drag or scrape the feet in walking or dancing.

n.
The act of shuffling; a mixing confusedly; a slovenly, dragging motion.

n.
A trick; an artifice; an evasion.


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 shuffle money from hand to hand. 2. 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.
3. To remove or introduce by artificial confusion.
It was contrived by your enemies, and shuffled into the papers that were seizen.
To shuffe off, to push off; to rid one's self of. -- To shuffe up, to throw together in hastel to make up or form in confusion or with fraudulent disorder; as, he shuffled up a peace.

Shuffle

Shuf"fle, v. i. 1. To change the relative position of cards in a pack; as, to shuffle and cut. 2. 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.
3. To use arts or expedients; to make shift.
Your life, good master, Must shuffle for itself.
4. 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.
Syn. -- To equivicate; prevaricate; quibble; cavil; shift; siphisticate; juggle.

Shuffle

Shuf"fle, n. 1. The act of shuffling; a mixing confusedly; a slovenly, dragging motion.
The unguided agitation and rude shuffles of matter.
2. A trick; an artifice; an evasion.
The gifts of nature are beyond all shame and shuffles.

To shove one way and the other; to push from one to another; as, to shuffle money from hand to hand.

To change the relative position of cards in a pack; as, to shuffle and cut.

The act of shuffling; a mixing confusedly; a slovenly, dragging motion.

...

Usage Examples

As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is our responsibility.

Misspelled Form

shuffle, ashuffle, wshuffle, eshuffle, dshuffle, xshuffle, zshuffle, ahuffle, whuffle, ehuffle, dhuffle, xhuffle, zhuffle, sahuffle, swhuffle, sehuffle, sdhuffle, sxhuffle, szhuffle, sghuffle, syhuffle, suhuffle, sjhuffle, snhuffle, sguffle, syuffle, suuffle, sjuffle, snuffle, shguffle, shyuffle, shuuffle, shjuffle, shnuffle, shyuffle, sh7uffle, sh8uffle, shiuffle, shjuffle, shyffle, sh7ffle, sh8ffle, shiffle, shjffle, shuyffle, shu7ffle, shu8ffle, shuiffle, shujffle, shudffle, shurffle, shutffle, shugffle, shuvffle, shucffle, shudfle, shurfle, shutfle, shugfle, shuvfle, shucfle, shufdfle, shufrfle, shuftfle, shufgfle, shufvfle, shufcfle, shufdfle, shufrfle, shuftfle, shufgfle, shufvfle, shufcfle, shufdle, shufrle, shuftle, shufgle, shufvle, shufcle, shuffdle, shuffrle, shufftle, shuffgle, shuffvle, shuffcle, shuffkle, shuffole, shuffple, shuff:le, shuffke, shuffoe, shuffpe, shuff:e, shufflke, shuffloe, shufflpe, shuffl:e, shufflwe, shuffl3e, shuffl4e, shufflre, shufflse, shufflde, shufflw, shuffl3, shuffl4, shufflr, shuffls, shuffld, shufflew, shuffle3, shuffle4, shuffler, shuffles, shuffled.

Other Usage Examples

Comments


Browse Dictionary