shuffle
English
Etymology
Originally the same word as scuffle, and properly a frequentative of shove.
Pronunciation
Noun
shuffle (plural shuffles)
- The act of shuffling cards.
- He made a real mess of the last shuffle.
- The act of reordering anything, such as music tracks in a media player.
- An instance of walking without lifting one's feet.
- The sad young girl left with a tired shuffle.
- (by extension, music) A rhythm commonly used in blues music. Consists of a series of triplet notes with the middle note missing, so that it sounds like a long note followed by a short note. Sounds like a walker dragging one foot.
- A trick; an artifice; an evasion.
- (Can we date this quote by L'Estrange and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
- The gifts of nature are beyond all shame and shuffles.
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Quotations
- 1995, Mel Kernahan, White savages in the South Seas, Verso, page 113:
- As I lay there listening to the strange night sounds, I hear the shuffle of someone creeping by outside in the grass.
- 2003, Edmund G. Bansak & Robert Wise, Fearing the Dark: The Val Lewton Career, McFarland, page 394:
- She has a crippled leg, and every time she walks we hear the shuffle of her crinoline skirt and the thumping of her cane.
- 2008, Markus Zusak, The Book Thief, Pan Macmillan Australia, page 148:
- Around her, she could hear the shuffle of her own hands, disturbing the shelves.
Derived terms
Translations
act of shuffling cards
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Verb
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- (transitive, intransitive) To put in a random order.
- Don't forget to shuffle the cards.
- You shuffle, and I'll deal.
- The data packets are shuffled before transmission.
- I'm going to shuffle all the songs in my playlist.
- To change; modify the order of something.
- 2010 December 28, Marc Vesty, “Stoke 0 - 2 Fulham”, in BBC[1]:
- But, rather than make a change up front, Hughes shuffled his defence for this match, replacing Carlos Salcido with Baird, in a move which few would have predicted would prove decisive.
- (transitive, intransitive) To move in a slovenly, dragging manner; to drag or scrape the feet in walking or dancing.
- He shuffled out of the room.
- I shuffled my feet in embarrassment.
- 1819, John Keats, “The Eve of St. Agnes”, in Lamia, Isabella, the Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems, London: […] [Thomas Davison] for Taylor and Hessey, […], published 1820, →OCLC, stanza XI, page 88:
- [T]he aged creature came, / Shuffling along with ivory-headed wand, [...]
- 1954, Alexander Alderson, chapter 4, in The Subtle Minotaur[2]:
- Even when the other instruments were resting the pianist kept up his monotonous vamping, with a dreary furbelow for embellishment here and there, to which some few of the dancers continued to shuffle round the floor.
- 1973, “Piano Man”, Billy Joel (music):
- The regular crowd shuffle in
- To change one's position; to shift ground; to evade questions; to resort to equivocation; to prevaricate.
- c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:
- I myself, […] hiding mine honour in my necessity, am fain to shuffle.
- To use arts or expedients; to make shift.
- 1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene v]:
- Your life, good master, / Must shuffle for itself.
- To shove one way and the other; to push from one to another.
- to shuffle money from hand to hand
- To remove or introduce by artificial confusion.
- (Can we date this quote by Dryden and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
- It was contrived by your enemies, and shuffled into the papers that were seiz'd.
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Synonyms
- (walk without picking up one's feet): shamble
Derived terms
Derived terms
Translations
to put in a random order
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to walk without picking up one's feet
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Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
Verb
shuffle (present tense shuffler, simple past and past participle shufflet)
- to shuffle (including dancing the shuffle, playing shuffleboard)
References
- “shuffle_2” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
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