shuffle Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun the act of mixing cards haphazardly
    make; shuffling.
  2. noun walking with a slow dragging motion without lifting your feet
    shambling; shamble; shuffling.
    • from his shambling I assumed he was very old
  3. verb walk by dragging one's feet
    scuffle; shamble.
    • he shuffled out of the room
    • We heard his feet shuffling down the hall
  4. verb move about, move back and forth
    • He shuffled his funds among different accounts in various countries so as to avoid the IRS
  5. verb mix so as to make a random order or arrangement
    ruffle; mix.
    • shuffle the cards

WordNet

Shuf"fle transitive verb
Etymology
Originally the same word as scuffle, and properly a freq. of shove. See Shove, and Scuffle.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Shuffled ; present participle & verbal noun Shuffling
Definitions
  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.
Shuf"fle intransitive verb
Definitions
  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 muself, . . . 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; siphisticate; juggle.
Shuf"fle noun
Definitions
  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.

Webster 1913