Sekirov Dictionary

shuffle

/ˈʃʌfəl/

verb 7
noun 6
forms 5
phrases 3

verb7

•
To move in a slovenly, dragging manner; to drag or scrape the feet in walking or dancing.
- He shuffled out of the room.
- I shuffled my feet in embarrassment.
•
To put in a random order.
- Don't forget to shuffle the cards.
- You shuffle, and I'll deal.
•
To change; modify the order of something.
- But, rather than make a change up front, Hughes shuffled his defence for this match, replacing Carlos Salcido with Baird, in a move which few would have predicted would prove decisive. — 2010
To shove one way and the other; to push from one to another.
•
To change one's position; to shift ground; to evade questions; to resort to equivocation; to prevaricate.
- I myself, […] hiding mine honour in my necessity, am fain to shuffle. — 1597
To remove or introduce by artificial confusion.
•
To use arts or expedients; to make shift.
- Your life, good master, / Must shuffle for itself. — 1611

noun6

•
An instance of walking without lifting one's feet.
- The sad young girl left with a tired shuffle.
•
The act of mixing cards or mah-jong tiles so as to randomize them.
- He made a real mess of the last shuffle.
The act of reordering anything, such as music tracks in a media player.
A dance move in which the foot is scuffed back and forth across the floor.
A rhythm commonly used in blues music, consisting of a series of triplet notes with the middle note missing, so that it sounds like a long note followed by a short note, and suggests a walker dragging one foot.
•
A trick; an artifice; an evasion.
- The Gifts of Nature are beyond all the Shams and Shuffles in the World. — 1692

forms

shuffled · shuffling · shuffles · shuffleth · shufflest

Phrases with shuffle

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