English Explanatory Dictionary

shuffle

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The act of mixing cards or mah-jong tiles so as to randomize them.
  2. The act of reordering anything, such as music tracks in a media player.
  3. An instance of walking without lifting one's feet.
  4. A rhythm commonly used in blues music, consisting of a series of triplet notes with the middle note missing, so that it sounds like a long note followed by a short note, and suggests a walker dragging one foot.
  5. A dance move in which the foot is scuffed back and forth across the floor.
  6. A trick; an artifice; an evasion.
verb
  1. To put in a random order.
  2. To change; modify the order of something.
  3. To move in a slovenly, dragging manner; to drag or scrape the feet in walking or dancing.
  4. To change one's position; to shift ground; to evade questions; to resort to equivocation; to prevaricate.
  5. To use arts or expedients; to make shift.
  6. To shove one way and the other; to push from one to another.
  7. To remove or introduce by artificial confusion.

Pronunciation

/ˈʃʌfəl/ en-us-shuffle.ogg

Word forms

shuffle shuffles shuffling shuffled

Etymology

Originally the same word as scuffle, and properly a frequentative of shove.

Synonyms

shamble scuff

Derived words

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