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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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Etymology of 'Shuffle'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Shuffle" Quotes from Famous Books

... really two central themes handled in this book. One is of Fairyland, the other is of the defence of Christianity; not that it is either true or false, but that it is rational, or the most shuffle-headed nonsense ever set to delude the human race. The method of apology that Chesterton takes is one that would cause the average theological student to turn ...

— Gilbert Keith Chesterton • Patrick Braybrooke

... probable that they so skilfully pulled the wires at Burlington House as to quicken the appetites of the Whig leaders. Dundas may have acted with a view to breaking up the Whig party, and Loughborough in order to bring about a general shuffle of the cards favourable to himself. Malmesbury and others, whose desires or interests lay in a union of the Portland Whigs with Pitt, furthered the scheme, and gave full credence to Loughborough's reports. But we may doubt whether Pitt took the affair seriously ...

— William Pitt and the Great War • John Holland Rose

... discussed barriers to the distribution of networked multimedia information. The heart of the problem is a lack of standards to provide the ability for computers to talk to each other, retrieve information, and shuffle it around fairly casually. At the moment, little progress is being made on standards for networked information; for example, present standards do not cover images, digital voice, and digital video. A useful tool kit of exchange formats ...

— LOC WORKSHOP ON ELECTRONIC TEXTS • James Daly

... the Kachins led Thomas Haydon aside and placed him against the farther wall. There was a shuffle of feet at the door, and three or four natives from the village brought in a man whose hands were bound behind his back. They were followed by at least a score more of men and women, and for the next half hour there was a fearful babel of tongues. As far as Jack could gather it seemed ...

— Jack Haydon's Quest • John Finnemore

... only some strange peculiarity, a stammer or a lisp, a Northumbrian burr or an Irish brogue, a stoop or a shuffle. "If a man," said Johnson, "hops on one leg, Foote can hop on one leg." Garrick, on the other hand, could seize those differences of manner and pronunciation, which, though highly characteristic, are yet too slight to be described, Foote, we have no doubt, could have made ...

— The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay Volume 1 • Madame D'Arblay

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