Shuffle /(?)/

Shuf·fle

Shuffle

v. t.

imp. & p. p. Shuffled; p. pr. & vb. n. 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.
    — Rombler.
  3. To remove or introduce by artificial confusion.
    It was contrived by your enemies, and shuffled into the papers that were seizen.

Phrases & Compounds
To shuffe off
to push off; to rid one's self of.
To shuffe 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.
    — Keats.

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.