'Shuffle' definitions:

Definition of 'shuffle'

From: WordNet
noun
The act of mixing cards haphazardly [syn: shuffle, shuffling, make]
noun
Walking with a slow dragging motion without lifting your feet; "from his shambling I assumed he was very old" [syn: shamble, shambling, shuffle, shuffling]
verb
Walk by dragging one's feet; "he shuffled out of the room"; "We heard his feet shuffling down the hall" [syn: shuffle, scuffle, shamble]
verb
Move about, move back and forth; "He shuffled his funds among different accounts in various countries so as to avoid the IRS"
verb
Mix so as to make a random order or arrangement; "shuffle the cards" [syn: shuffle, ruffle, mix]

Definition of 'Shuffle'

From: GCIDE
  • Shuffle \Shuf"fle\, v. i.
  • 1. To change the relative position of cards in a pack; as, to shuffle and cut. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. To change one's position; to shift ground; to evade questions; to resort to equivocation; to prevaricate. [1913 Webster]
  • I myself, . . . hiding mine honor in my necessity, am fain to shuffle. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. To use arts or expedients; to make shift. [1913 Webster]
  • Your life, good master, Must shuffle for itself. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. To move in a slovenly, dragging manner; to drag or scrape the feet in walking or dancing. [1913 Webster]
  • The aged creature came Shuffling along with ivory-headed wand. --Keats. [1913 Webster]
  • Syn: To equivicate; prevaricate; quibble; cavil; shift; sophisticate; juggle. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Shuffle'

From: GCIDE
  • Shuffle \Shuf"fle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Shuffled; p. pr. & vb. n. Shuffling.] [Originally the same word as scuffle, and properly a freq. of shove. See Shove, and Scuffle.]
  • 1. To shove one way and the other; to push from one to another; as, to shuffle money from hand to hand. [1913 Webster]
  • 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. [1913 Webster]
  • A man may shuffle cards or rattle dice from noon to midnight without tracing a new idea in his mind. --Rombler. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. To remove or introduce by artificial confusion. [1913 Webster]
  • It was contrived by your enemies, and shuffled into the papers that were seizen. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
  • To shuffe off, to push off; to rid one's self of.
  • To shuffe up, to throw together in hastel to make up or form in confusion or with fraudulent disorder; as, he shuffled up a peace. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Shuffle'

From: GCIDE
  • Shuffle \Shuf"fle\, n.
  • 1. The act of shuffling; a mixing confusedly; a slovenly, dragging motion. [1913 Webster]
  • The unguided agitation and rude shuffles of matter. --Bentley. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. A trick; an artifice; an evasion. [1913 Webster]
  • The gifts of nature are beyond all shame and shuffles. --L'Estrange. [1913 Webster]

Synonyms of 'shuffle'

From: Moby Thesaurus

Words containing 'Shuffle'