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shuffle en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈʃʌfəl/
• (US) audio

Etymology

Originally the same word as scuffle, and properly a frequentative of shove.

Meanings

1. The act of mixing cards or mah-jong tiles so as to randomize them.
   • He made a real mess of the last shuffle.
2. The act of reordering anything, such as music tracks in a media player.
3. An instance of walking without lifting one's feet.
   • The sad young girl left with a tired shuffle.
4. (broadly) 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.
5. A dance move in which the foot is scuffed back and forth across the floor.
6. A trick; an artifice; an evasion.
   • The Gifts of Nature are beyond all the Shams and Shuffles in the World. 1692, Roger L’Estrange, “ (please specify the fable number.) (please specify the name of the fable.)”, in Fables, of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists: […], London: […] R[ichard] Sare, […], →OCLC:

Forms

Deriveds

Brixton shuffle · truffle shuffle · Purdie shuffle · Kansas City shuffle · three-card shuffle · Kit Kat shuffle · mana shuffle · double-shuffle · ghost note shuffle · Melbourne shuffle · Zarrow shuffle · shuffle product · shuffle algebra · Fisher-Yates shuffle · five-knuckle shuffle · riffle shuffle · double shuffle · Thorazine shuffle · auto-shuffle · Largactil shuffle · lost in the shuffle · shuffle steer

Translations (25)

kea barádja (act of shuffling cards) · hu csoszogás (instance of walking without lifting one's feet) · es barajada (act of shuffling cards) · uk човгання (instance of walking without lifting one's feet) · is stokkun (act of shuffling cards) · uk тасування (act of shuffling cards) · pt embaralhamento (act of shuffling cards) · ja シャッフル (act of shuffling cards) · pt baralhar (act of shuffling cards) · fa بر (act of shuffling cards) · es barajadura (act of shuffling cards) · fr battage (act of shuffling cards) · ru переме́шивание (act of shuffling cards) · de Durchmischen (act of shuffling cards) · de Mischeln (act of shuffling cards) · ru тасова́ние (act of shuffling cards) · es baraje (act of shuffling cards) · uk перемішування (act of shuffling cards) · de Mischen (act of shuffling cards) · tr karma (act of shuffling cards) · tr karmak (act of shuffling cards) · fi sekoittaminen (act of shuffling cards) · de Schlurfen (instance of walking without lifting one's feet) · eo miksado (act of shuffling cards) · sk miešanie (act of shuffling cards)

shuffle en · VERB

Pronunciation

• /ˈʃʌfəl/
• (US) audio

Etymology

Originally the same word as scuffle, and properly a frequentative of shove.

Meanings

1. (ambitransitive) To put in a random order.
   • Don't forget to shuffle the cards.
   • The data packets are shuffled before transmission.
   • Behind her, she heard the flutter of cards being shuffled back into the pack. 2015, Abra S.W., A Circus of Brass and Bone, Bimulous Books:
   • I'm going to shuffle all the songs in my playlist.
   • You shuffle, and I'll deal.
2. 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 December 28, Marc Vesty, “Stoke 0 – 2 Fulham”, in BBC Sport:
3. (ambitransitive) To move in a slovenly, dragging manner; to drag or scrape the feet in walking or dancing.
   • Even when the other instruments were resting the pianist kept up his monotonous vamping, with a dreary furbelow for embellishment here and there, to which some few of the dancers continued to shuffle round the floor. 1954, Alexander Alderson, chapter 4, in The Subtle Minotaur:
   • The regular crowd shuffles in 1973, “Piano Man”, Billy Joel (music):
   • I shuffled my feet in embarrassment.
   • He shuffled out of the room.
   • [T]he aged creature came, / Shuffling along with ivory-headed wand, […] 1819, John Keats, “The Eve of St. Agnes”, in Lamia, Isabella, the Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems, London: […] [Thomas Davison] for Taylor and Hessey, […], published 1820, →OCLC, stanza XI, page 88:
4. 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. c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:
5. To use arts or expedients; to make shift.
   • Your life, good master, / Must shuffle for itself. 1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene v]:
6. To shove one way and the other; to push from one to another.
   • to shuffle money from hand to hand
7. To remove or introduce by artificial confusion.
   • Therefore you do vvell to have recourſe to your laſt Evaſion, that it vvas contriv'd by your Enemies, and ſhuffled into the Papers that vvere ſeiz'd: vvhich yet you ſee the Nation is not ſo eaſy to believe as your ovvn Fury; […] 1682, [John Dryden], “Epistle to the Whigs”, in The Medall. A Satyre Against Sedition. […], Edinburgh: [s.n.], →OCLC:

Forms

Deriveds

shuffle the deckchairs on the Titanic · misshuffle · unshuffle · shuffler · shuffle off this mortal coil · shuffle off · bum shuffle · shufflewing · shufflingly · unshuffleable · unshufflable · shuffle the cards · shufflepuck · double-shuffle · shuffleboard · stingray shuffle · shuffly · reshuffle · shufflable · shuffleable · shuffle up · shuffleability · deshuffle · shuffle the chairs on the deck of the Titanic

Synonyms

scuff (walk without picking up one's feet) · shamble (walk without picking up one's feet)

Translations (84)

nmn ʘxúũ (to walk without picking up one's feet) · tr karmak (to put in a random order) · da slentre (to walk without picking up one's feet) · fr battre (to put in a random order) · nl slenteren (to walk without picking up one's feet) · kea baradja (to put in a random order) · fi laahustaa (to walk without picking up one's feet) · ko 뒤섞다 (to put in a random order) · ru волочи́ть но́ги (to walk without picking up one's feet) · ru переме́шивать (to put in a random order) · mi kōnekeneke (to walk without picking up one's feet) · is stokka (to put in a random order) · pl tasować (to put in a random order) · es barajear (to put in a random order) · km ជ្រែ (to put in a random order) · pt embaralhar (to put in a random order) · uk тасувати (to put in a random order) · tr karıştırmak (to put in a random order) · ga boscáil (to put in a random order) · cs míchat (to put in a random order) · eo miksi (to put in a random order) · ca arrossegar els peus (to walk without picking up one's feet) · mn холих (to put in a random order) · da blande (to put in a random order) · hy քստքստացնել (to walk without picking up one's feet) · he טָרַף (to put in a random order) · de mischen (to put in a random order) · ru перемеша́ть (to put in a random order) · ms bancuh (to put in a random order) · de schlurfen (to walk without picking up one's feet) · ga suaith (to put in a random order) · km លាយ (to put in a random order) · am በወዘ (to put in a random order) · mi riwhi (to put in a random order) · ca escartejar (to put in a random order) · ru тасова́ть (to put in a random order) · hy խառնել (to put in a random order) · sv blanda (to put in a random order) · la misceo (to put in a random order) · ar خَلَطَ (to put in a random order) · it mischiare (to put in a random order) · de durchmischen (to put in a random order) · uk човгати (to walk without picking up one's feet) · yi טאַשן (to put in a random order) · ko 질질 끌다 (to walk without picking up one's feet) · pl powłóczyć (to walk without picking up one's feet) · ar مَشَى يَجُرُّ قَدَمَيْهِ (to walk without picking up one's feet) · af skuifel (to walk without picking up one's feet) · cs vléci se (to walk without picking up one's feet) · km សាប់ (to put in a random order) · es barajar (to put in a random order) · he ערבב (to put in a random order) · ca barrejar (to put in a random order) · ro se târșâi (to walk without picking up one's feet) · ms gaul (to put in a random order) · pt arrastar os pés (to walk without picking up one's feet) · es arrastrar (to walk without picking up one's feet) · it trascinarsi (to walk without picking up one's feet) · es naipear (to put in a random order) · cmn 洗牌 (to put in a random order) · cs šinout se (to walk without picking up one's feet) · nrf faithe les cartes (to put in a random order) · nl schudden (to put in a random order) · mi pīkari (to walk without picking up one's feet) · hu csoszog (to walk without picking up one's feet) · es entreverar (to put in a random order) · it mescolare (to put in a random order) · it strascicare (to walk without picking up one's feet) · ru перетасова́ть (to put in a random order) · vi xáo (to put in a random order) · mi riwhiriwhi (to put in a random order) · cs šourat se (to walk without picking up one's feet) · de mischeln (to put in a random order) · mi hōnekeneke (to walk without picking up one's feet) · cs zamíchat (to put in a random order) · ar رَسَفَ (to walk without picking up one's feet) · ca mesclar (to put in a random order) · ca barallar (to put in a random order) · fr traîner les pieds (to walk without picking up one's feet) · ru ша́ркать (to walk without picking up one's feet) · pt baralhar (to put in a random order) · vi trộn (to put in a random order) · fi sekoittaa (to put in a random order) · fr mélanger (to put in a random order)