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shuf⋅fle

[shuhf-uh

verb, -fled, -fling, noun

–verb (used without object)

1.	to walk without lifting the feet or with clumsy steps and a shambling gait.

2.	to scrape the feet over the floor in dancing.

3.	to move clumsily (usually fol. by into): to shuffle into one's clothes.

4.	to act underhandedly or evasively with respect to a stated situation (often fol. by in, into, or out of): to shuffle out of one's responsibilities.

5.	to intermix so as to change the relative positions of cards in a pack.

–verb (used with object)

6.	to move (one's feet) along the ground or floor without lifting them.

7.	to perform (a dance) with such movements.

8.	to move (an object or objects) this way and that.

9.	to put, thrust, or bring trickily, evasively, or haphazardly (usually fol. by in, into, out, etc.): to shuffle one's way into favor.

10.	to mix (cards in a pack) so as to change the relative positions.

11.	to jumble together, mix, or interchange the positions of (objects).

–noun

12.	a scraping movement; dragging gait.

13.	an evasive trick; evasion.

14.	an act or instance of shuffling.

15.

Cards.

a.	a shuffling of cards in a pack.

b.	the right or turn to shuffle preparatory to dealing: You win the shuffle.

16.	a dance in which the feet are shuffled along the floor.

—Verb phrase

17.

shuffle off,

a.	to thrust aside; get rid of.

b.	to move away by, or as if by, shuffling: They shuffled off to school with little enthusiasm.

Origin:
1525–35; < LG schuffeln to walk clumsily or with dragging feet, mix (cards); akin to shovel

Synonyms:
6. drag, scrape, scuff.

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shuf·fle (shŭf'əl)

v. shuf·fled, shuf·fling, shuf·fles

v. tr.

To slide (the feet) along the floor or ground while walking.
To move (something) from one place to another; transfer or shift.
To put aside or under cover quickly; shunt: shuffled the bill under a pile of junk mail.
To mix together; jumble.
To mix together (playing cards or tiles, for example) so as to make a random order of arrangement.

v. intr.

To move with short sliding steps, without or barely lifting the feet: The crowd shuffled out of the theater.
To dance casually with sliding and tapping steps.
To move about from place to place; shift: shuffled around looking for work.
To act in a shifty or deceitful manner; equivocate.
Games To mix playing cards, tiles, or dominoes together so as to make their order random.

A short sliding step or movement, or a walk characterized by such steps.
A dance in which the feet slide along or move close to the floor.
An evasive or deceitful action; an equivocation.
A confused mixture; a jumble.
Games
1. An act of shuffling cards, dominoes, or tiles.
2. A player's right or turn to do this.

Phrasal Verb(s):
shuffle off

To get rid of; dispose of.
To evade or shirk (a responsibility, for example).
Informal To leave; depart.

[Middle English shovelen, probably of Middle Dutch or Middle Low German origin.]
shuf'fler n.

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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. --Rombler.

3. To remove or introduce by artificial confusion.

It was contrived by your enemies, and shuffled into the papers that were seizen. --Dryden.

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 myself, . . . hiding mine honor in my necessity, am fain to shuffle. --Shak.

3. To use arts or expedients; to make shift.

Your life, good master, Must shuffle for itself. --Shak.

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. --Keats.

Syn: To equivicate; prevaricate; quibble; cavil; shift; sophisticate; 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. --Bentley.

2. A trick; an artifice; an evasion.

The gifts of nature are beyond all shame and shuffles. --L'Estrange.

Language Translation for : shuffle

Spanish: caminar arrastrando los pies,

German: schlurfen,

Japanese: 足を引きずる

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shuffle

1532, probably from M.E. shovelen "to move with dragging feet," probably a freq. form of shoven (see shove). Or perhaps from Low Ger. schuffeln "to walk clumsily, deal dishonestly." Of playing cards, first recorded 1570. The noun is attested from 1628. Phrase lost in the shuffle is from 1930.

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