shuffle

Speech parts

1. shuffle - Noun

2. shuffle - Verb

Meaning

To shove one way and the other; to push from one to another; as, to shuffle money from hand to hand.

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.

To change the relative position of cards in a pack; as, to shuffle and cut.

To change one's position; to shift ground; to evade questions; to resort to equivocation; to prevaricate.

To move in a slovenly, dragging manner; to drag or scrape the feet in walking or dancing.

The act of shuffling; a mixing confusedly; a slovenly, dragging motion.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

shamble make shift mix shuffling scuffle quibble ruffle shambling prevaricate dodge bumble waddle boogie riffle
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Antonyms

march group become order place rate
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Hypernyms

transfer shift walk walking manipulate reordering

Hyponyms

riffle cut drag scuff reshuffle reshuffling

Phrases with the word

lost in the shuffle shuffle the chairs on the deck of the Titanic shuffle the deckchairs on the Titanic bum shuffle shuffle around fast shuffle

Derivatives

shuffled shuffling

Examples

As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is our responsibility. Arnold J. Toynbee

Ignore death up to the last moment then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh. Aldous Huxley

The shuffle only demonstrated people's fatuous belief in a political cure for a human condition. Brian Aldiss

I say patience, and shuffle the cards. Miguel de Cervantes

"Everybody who says the same words is the same person if the spectra are the same only they happen differently in time, you dig? But the time is arbitrary. You pick your zero point anywhere you want, that way you can shuffle each person's time line sideways till they all coincide. Thomas Pynchon

April: shuffle the pigsty. Corsican Proverb

Close letter words and terms

Shuff Shuffield shufflable shuffle algebra shuffle around shuffle off