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Shuffle   /ʃˈəfəl/   Listen
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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"Shuffle" Quotes from Famous Books



... what they stood for and concretely symbolised. They represented all the vast conscious world of men outside himself; they symbolised something that in his studious solitariness he was apt not to believe in. He could stand at Piccadilly Circus, could watch the crowds shuffle past, and still imagine himself the one fully conscious, intelligent, individual being among all those thousands. It seemed, somehow, impossible that other people should be in their way as elaborate and complete as he in ...
— Crome Yellow • Aldous Huxley
... rain the night before, and the boys were worried, not wishing to depart in the wet. But the sun came out full in the morning, and their spirits at once arose. Roger could not contain himself and whistled merrily, while Phil did a double shuffle while waiting for breakfast. Dave was also happy, although sorry that the girls, and especially Jessie, would not ...
— Dave Porter at Star Ranch - Or, The Cowboy's Secret • Edward Stratemeyer
... like a Spartan to the bitter end, and when the trip was over he, like Lord Ullen, was left lamenting in the shuffle of the forgotten, and didn't even get a kiss in the final good-byes, when they fell as thick as ...
— A Fantasy of Mediterranean Travel • S. G. Bayne
... we both tread I have uniformly found him from the first the most generous of men; quick to encourage, slow to disparage, ever anxious to assert the order of which he is so great an ornament; never condescending to shuffle it off, and leave it outside state rooms, as a Mussulman might leave his slippers outside ...
— Speeches: Literary and Social • Charles Dickens
... to work for it, and then you'll feel that it's yours by right and not by favor. I want to make a man of you, Joe, and my children shall always think of you as one of their best friends. Go out of doors if you want to dance, Joe," seeing the feet beginning to shuffle, and understanding the mingled joy ...
— The Big Brother - A Story of Indian War • George Cary Eggleston


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