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Shuffle   /ʃˈəfəl/   Listen
verb
Shuffle  v. t.  (past & past part. shuffled; pres. part. shuffling)  
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 shuffle off, to push off; to rid one's self of.
To shuffle up, to throw together in hastel to make up or form in confusion or with fraudulent disorder; as, he shuffled up a peace.



Shuffle  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."
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."
Synonyms: To equivicate; prevaricate; quibble; cavil; shift; sophisticate; juggle.



noun
Shuffle  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."






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"Shuffle" Quotes from Famous Books



... harmonica to divert her. The baby fell asleep, the wife and Mr. Shchapoff's miller's lady were engaged in conversation, when a shadow crossed the blind on the outside. They were about to go out and see who was passing, when they heard a double shuffle being executed with energy in the loft overhead. They thought Maria, the cook, was making a night of it, but found her asleep in the kitchen. The dancing went on but nobody could be found in the loft. Then raps began on the ...
— The Book of Dreams and Ghosts • Andrew Lang

... make the cards. First they had to cut the cardboard. This John did with a very sharp knife. Next, they drew hearts and diamonds and other necessary markings. To be sure, the set of cards was a very crude one when it was finished; and when the boys began to shuffle them in the pack, they were disappointed because of the bulky appearance and wished for a more perfect set. But John had done a good job in cutting them out, and the marking answered the purpose very well. So night ...
— How John Became a Man • Isabel C. Byrum

... was soaked in perspiration from head to foot, giddy with sun and unnatural posture, very sore as to elbows and knees, out of breath, trembling—and entirely happy. The half-mile crawl, with the greater part of his body on the burning ground, and the rifle to shuffle steadily along without noise or damage, was the equivalent of a hard day's work to a strong man. At the end of it he lay gasping and sick, aching in every limb, almost blind with glare and over-exertion, weary to death—and entirely happy. Thank God he would be able to stand up in a ...
— Snake and Sword - A Novel • Percival Christopher Wren

... join &c. 43; combine &c. 48; commix, immix[obs3], intermix; mix up with, mingle; commingle, intermingle, bemingle[obs3]; shuffle &c. (derange) 61; pound together; hash up, stir up; knead, brew; impregnate with; interlard &c. (interpolate) 228; intertwine, interweave &c. 219; associate with; miscegenate[obs3]. be mixed &c.; get ...
— Roget's Thesaurus

... were more mistaken in your life. Watch me, now." The orchestra was playing in lively time, and Captain Sayre began to do a lively dance, which was something between a Sailor's Hornpipe and a Double Shuffle. ...
— Patty's Butterfly Days • Carolyn Wells


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