shuffle
Pronunciation: /ˈʃʌfəl/
The English word “shuffle” has 13 meanings listed here.
noun
- The act of mixing cards or mah-jong tiles so as to randomize them.
- The act of reordering anything, such as music tracks in a media player.
- An instance of walking without lifting one's feet.
- 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.
- A dance move in which the foot is scuffed back and forth across the floor.
- A trick; an artifice; an evasion.
verb
- To put in a random order.
- To change; modify the order of something.
- To move in a slovenly, dragging manner; to drag or scrape the feet in walking or dancing.
- To change one's position; to shift ground; to evade questions; to resort to equivocation; to prevaricate.
- To use arts or expedients; to make shift.
- To shove one way and the other; to push from one to another.
- To remove or introduce by artificial confusion.
Etymology
Originally the same word as scuffle, and properly a frequentative of shove.
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