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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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Etymology of 'Shuffle'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Shuffle" Quotes from Famous Books

... room, were hideous, sleepless, dreadful hours. Her ears were filled with Benton's roar—whispers and wails and laughs; thick shouts of drunken men; the cold voices of gamblers; clink of gold and clink of glasses; a ceaseless tramp and shuffle of boots; pistol-shots muffled and far away, pistol-shots ringing and near at hand; the angry hum of brawling men; and strangest of all this dreadful roar were the high-pitched, piercing voices of women, in songs without soul, in laughter without mirth, in ...

— The U.P. Trail • Zane Grey

... season advanced Mokwa grew fat and contented, exerting himself only enough to shuffle from one good feeding ground to another. He would grunt complainingly at any extra exertion, as, for instance, that which was required to reach the small wild sweet apples which he dearly loved, and which were clustered thickly on their small trees at the edge of the forest. ...

— Followers of the Trail • Zoe Meyer

... was due to the engagement which he must now fulfil. He had pledged his word to ask Marian to marry him without further delay. To shuffle out of this duty would make him too ignoble even in his own eyes. Its discharge meant, as he had expressed it, that he was 'doomed'; he would deliberately be committing the very error always so flagrant to him in the case of other men who had crippled themselves by early ...

— New Grub Street • George Gissing

... no further parley, for he started off down the road. Mark stood looking after him. He noticed that he was tall and walked with a long stride, not the lazy shuffle of the hobo. Also he had caught a quality of education in the husky voice. Under its coarsened inflections there was an echo of something cultured, not fitting with his present appearance, a voice that might once have known very different conditions. Possibly a dangerous ...

— Treasure and Trouble Therewith - A Tale of California • Geraldine Bonner

... gaze—an abhorrent vacuum. His clothes would be the odds and ends of students' offcasts, in the last stages of disintegration. He had a chronic stoop; always aimed his surviving eye obliquely at you, from a bent head; and walked with a sort of hang-dog shuffle that ...

— Grey Roses • Henry Harland

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