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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
shuffle
I.verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
shuffle your feet (=make small movements with them, because you are nervous or impatient)
▪ Ken shuffled his feet and looked down at the floor.
shuffled off this mortal coil (=died)
▪ when Hubbard shuffled off this mortal coil
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
along
▪ I stay a few feet behind, watching the three of them shuffle along at a ten-month-old's pace.
▪ Twelve feet high, cube in shape, not very smart or nimble, but it did shuffle along slowly.
▪ The bird shuffled along its perch.
▪ They seemed not so much to walk as to shuffle along on their patched boots.
▪ Getting the hands forward might involve a little arm over arm shuffling along the boom.
▪ Man shuffled along over the cold floors, some dressed in grey prison-issue pyjamas, others bare-chested or in boxer shorts.
around
▪ They shuffled around on the wire, blinking at Reynolds in their hundreds as he was led past.
▪ At some point, you may be struggling to evade a migraine from all the claustrophobic shuffling around.
▪ This shuffling around of genes greatly complicates the analysis of evolution.
▪ He shuffled around for the pack.
▪ On this view, the original deposit is merely shuffled around, split up and shuffled around again.
▪ From the top it looked like an elaborate dance, four arms entwined, four legs shuffling around and between each other.
▪ On this view, the original deposit is merely shuffled around, split up and shuffled around again.
▪ He then shuffled around the room cupping his hand around the chimneys and blowing out one lamp after another.
away
▪ Ruth heard the old footsteps shuffling away.
▪ Mrs Cohen shuffles away, then turns and waves at me encouragingly.
▪ I shuffled away and at the bottom of the stairs the back of my hand accidentally knocked the rail, hard.
back
▪ This allows the machine-chisel to shuffle back and forth, stepping down to full depth.
▪ Imagine trying to shuffle back and forth between four maps on a breezy day.
▪ I jab his fist, deflecting it as I shuffle back.
▪ I could shuffle forward and shuffle back.
▪ Instead of running, I shuffle back, as taught.
forward
▪ They shuffled forward in a dazed manner holding hands, their labels hanging round their necks.
▪ I could shuffle forward and shuffle back.
▪ He quickly shuffled forward on his knees to keep up.
▪ Mavis shuffled forward to hear them talk.
▪ Every ten minutes, when Mr Rowse was working, the line would shuffle forward one place.
▪ One of the giants shuffled forward, a ring of keys in his huge fist.
▪ I began to shuffle forward, hands stretched out in front.
in
▪ As we walk out to our cars, Peter shuffles in beside me, telling me about his children.
▪ The hundred-odd beneficiaries who shuffle in are largely men, white, some surprisingly young.
▪ A stream of feature writers was always shuffling in and out, lining up if there were others ahead of them.
off
▪ He turned around and saw the first Stillman shuffling off in the other direction.
▪ Meanwhile, he shuffled off towards the tube station and Chancery Lane.
▪ We watched it together, and then she sort of shuffled off, so I did, too.
▪ As the old man shuffled off into the drizzle Henry quickened his pace.
▪ He looked embarrassed when I said it, but genuinely gratified, and then be shuffled off without a single word more.
▪ The attendant, now adding a sulk to his sullenness, had shuffled off to the kitchen area.
▪ Watching him shuffle off to the press room, I felt sorry for poor Feels.
out
▪ Wrapped up like onions we shuffle out over the frozen ground; prop up the line where our sheets are flagging.
▪ She shuffles out when she hears some one walking by.
▪ The tall hunchbacked figure of Bert Midgeley came shuffling out.
▪ They eat in total silence and shuffle out again.
▪ But he just shook his head, sucked his teeth and shuffled out.
over
▪ He shuffled over towards the corner and collapsed on to a comfortable sofa.
▪ Fifi shuffled over and stood behind her, eager to share in the bounty.
■ NOUN
coil
▪ Morse and Meldrew both shuffled off this mortal coil and the telly world is diminished by their passing.
foot
▪ Limitations aside, Tagliabue still has it all over Bud Selig, who puts a foot down only to shuffle obsequiously.
▪ People were coughing, fanning themselves with programs as their feet shuffled under the creaking metal chairs.
▪ Then his feet turned, and shuffled a few steps, and began climbing the long staircase home.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ I heard Bob shuffling around the kitchen in his slippers.
▪ She shuffled her pile of papers, then began to speak.
▪ Supporting herself on Ali's arm, the old woman shuffled towards the door.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Bob Dole, or another Republican, end up shuffling toward the middle.
▪ People shuffle past, giving us a wide berth.
▪ She shuffles out when she hears some one walking by.
▪ They shuffled forward in a dazed manner holding hands, their labels hanging round their necks.
▪ Twelve feet high, cube in shape, not very smart or nimble, but it did shuffle along slowly.
▪ With wide, blank eyes he shuffled towards them.
II.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
get
▪ And in our sandwich, the grated cheese, when melted, got lost in the shuffle of the other ingredients.
▪ The theory, however, broke down; both customers and employees got lost in the shuffle.
lose
▪ And in our sandwich, the grated cheese, when melted, got lost in the shuffle of the other ingredients.
▪ The theory, however, broke down; both customers and employees got lost in the shuffle.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The latest management shuffle involved the heads of sales, finance, and personnel.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And in our sandwich, the grated cheese, when melted, got lost in the shuffle of the other ingredients.
▪ Hold, nudge, spin, kick, shuffle, double, win, lose.
▪ I could imagine tight kimonos, vulnerable shuffles, and decorative combs.
▪ I saw him doing a side shuffle to the main entrance as we all trooped along here.
▪ No time for shuffle, shuffle, shuffle, or slow-as-molasses soliloquies.
▪ Some shuffle and bustle along, with stiff, tense movements, head poking forward.
▪ The shareholding shuffle is likely to have been provoked by Philip Morris which is thought to have lost interest in Rothmans.
▪ The theory, however, broke down; both customers and employees got lost in the shuffle.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Shuffle

Shuffle \Shuf"fle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Shuffled; p. pr. & vb. n. Shuffling.] [Originally the same word as scuffle, and properly a freq. of shove. See Shove, and Scuffle.]

  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.
    --Dryden.

    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

Shuffle \Shuf"fle\, 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.
    --Shak.

  3. To use arts or expedients; to make shift.

    Your life, good master, Must shuffle for itself.
    --Shak.

  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.

    Syn: To equivicate; prevaricate; quibble; cavil; shift; sophisticate; juggle.

Shuffle

Shuffle \Shuf"fle\, n.

  1. The act of shuffling; a mixing confusedly; a slovenly, dragging motion.

    The unguided agitation and rude shuffles of matter.
    --Bentley.

  2. A trick; an artifice; an evasion.

    The gifts of nature are beyond all shame and shuffles.
    --L'Estrange.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
shuffle

1530s, put together hastily," probably from Middle English shovelen "to move with dragging feet," itself probably a frequentative form of shoven (see shove (v.)). Or perhaps from Low German schuffeln "to walk clumsily, deal dishonestly."\n

\nOf playing cards, first recorded 1560s. Meaning "walk slowly without lifting the feet" is from 1570s. Meaning "push along gradually" is from 1560s. Meaning "move from one place to another" is from 1690s. Meaning "do a shuffle dance" is from 1818. Related: Shuffled; shuffling. Shuffle off "get rid of, dispose of" is from Shakespeare (1601).

shuffle

1620s, "an evasion, trick;" 1640s, "a wavering or undecided course of behavior meant to deceive;" from shuffle (v.). Meaning "a slow, heavy, irregular manner of moving" is from 1847; that of "a dance in which the feet are shuffled" is from 1640s. Meaning "a change in the order of playing-cards" is from 1650s. Phrase lost in the shuffle is from 1930.

Wiktionary
shuffle

n. 1 The act of shuffling cards. 2 An instance of walking without lifting one's foot. 3 (context by extension music English) 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. 4 A trick; an artifice; an evasion. vb. 1 To put in a random order. 2 To move in a slovenly, dragging manner; to drag or scrape the feet in walking or dancing. 3 To change; modify the order of something.

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WordNet
shuffle

  1. v. walk by dragging one's feet; "he shuffled out of the room"; "We heard his feet shuffling down the hall" [syn: scuffle, shamble]

  2. move about, move back and forth; "He shuffled his funds among different accounts in various countries so as to avoid the IRS"

  3. mix so as to make a random order or arrangement; "shuffle the cards" [syn: ruffle, mix]

shuffle

  1. n. the act of mixing cards haphazardly [syn: shuffling, make]

  2. walking with a slow dragging motion without lifting your feet; "from his shambling I assumed he was very old" [syn: shamble, shambling, shuffling]

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Wikipedia
Shuffle (disambiguation)

Shuffling is a procedure used to randomize a deck of playing cards.

Shuffle or shuffling may also refer to:

Shuffle (anime)
Shuffle (song)

"Shuffle" is the first single by British alternative rock band Bombay Bicycle Club from their third studio album, A Different Kind of Fix. Through Island Records, the single was released on 23 June 2011 as a digital download in the United Kingdom. The song was chosen as "Record of The Week" by UK radio DJ Zane Lowe. "Shuffle" would become one of the band's most commercially successful singles.

Shuffle (game show)

Shuffle is an American game show that aired on The Family Channel. It ran from March 7 to June 10, 1994. Wink Martindale hosted, and Randy West announced.

Wink Martindale and Bill Hillier created and produced four "interactive" games for the Family Channel, with Wink hosting every one of them. Besides Shuffle, the other three were Trivial Pursuit, Boggle, and Jumble.

Shuffle premiered on the same day as Boggle. The two shows were quite similar; besides their similar formats, they shared the same theme song, sound effects, and set. (After Boggle finished taping, the set was re-decorated to make Shuffle's set). Shuffle was the less successful of the two, being replaced with Jumble after 14 weeks.

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Usage examples of "shuffle".

They all shuffle, all these strange lonely children of God, these mothers and fathers, sons and daughters, husbands and wives whose noisy aberrations are safely muffled now by drugs.

The sailors watched for an age as the troops, some walking, more carried, waded out into the surf and shuffled aboard the French transports.

The wharf guards are so used to seeing me shuffle past, they would not notice if Abri turned tumbles under my coat.

The sisters were busy with their toddlers doing that Yuppie shuffle of day care for the abysmally affluent.

It made Addle feel like he was sorting through her mind, opening up certain ideas and shuffling aside others.

Seregil and Alec warmed themselves gratefully at the cheerful blaze on the hearth while their host shuffled about with practiced efficiency, setting out bread, soup, and boiled eggs for them at the scrubbed wooden table.

But what good were his clubbed hands and shuffling step in the amaranth fields?

Billy Anker, dressed in a vintage EV suit, was shuffling head down towards it with all the grim patience of the physically unfit.

A ripple ran through the arachnid host gathered at the far edge of the plains, an anticipatory shuffling.

But while he basked in his new happiness I travelled in my close stuffy envelope to Dulminster, and after having been tossed in and out of bags, shuffled, stamped, thumped, tied up, and generally shaken about, I arrived one morning at Dulminster Archdeaconry, and was laid on the breakfast table among other appetising things to greet Mrs.

The Basha listened at first with a look of bewilderment, and some half-dozen armed attendants at the farther end of the room shuffled about in their consternation.

Jane was shuffling behind him uncertainly, also holding a belaying pin but not sure what to do.

Still later, he was shuffled once more, to get into a position to reinforce either Cocke or Bonham, whichever might need his assistance most.

I shuffled on her arm to the basin and carefully stepped in, holding to the side of the bothy with my good hand.

As he approached, that door opened and a yawning man stepped out, shuffled a short distance away from the tower, and emptied a chamber pot into a ditch or cesspit somewhere in the tall grass.