/
ˈʃʌf(ə)l/
v.
- walk by dragging one's feet along or without lifting them fully from the ground.
▸restlessly shift one's position.
▸
(shuffle something off/shuffle out of something)
get out of or avoid a responsibility or obligation.
- rearrange (a pack of cards) by sliding them over each other quickly.
▸
(shuffle through)
sort or look through (a number of things) hurriedly.
- move (people or things) around into different positions or a different order.
n.
- a shuffling movement, walk, or sound.
▸a quick dragging or scraping movement of the feet in dancing.
▸a dance performed with such steps.
- an act of shuffling a pack of cards.
- a change of order or relative positions; a reshuffle.
- a facility on a CD player for playing tracks in an arbitrary order.
- archaic a piece of equivocation or subterfuge.
Derivative
Etymology
C16: perh. from Low Ger. schuffeln ‘walk clumsily’, also ‘deal dishonestly, shuffle (cards)’, of Gmc origin; rel. to shove and scuffle.