Shuffle

Definition: Shuffle

Shuffle

Noun

1. The act of mixing cards haphazardly.

2. Walking with a slow dragging motion without lifting your feet; "from his shambling I assumed he was very old".

Verb

1. Walk by dragging one's feet; "he shuffled out of the room"; "We heard his feet shuffling down the hall".

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".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "shuffle" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1509. (references)

Note: Shuffle \Shuf"fle\, transitive verb. [imperfect & past participle. Shuffled; Shuffling.]. (references)

Synonyms: Shuffle

Agitation

Verb: be agitated; shake; tremble, tremble like an aspen leaf; quiver, quaver, quake, shiver, twitter, twire, writhe, toss, shuffle, tumble, stagger, bob, reel, sway, wag, waggle; wriggle, wriggle like an eel; dance, stumble, shamble, flounder, totter, flounce, flop, curvet, prance, cavort; squirm.

Arrangement

Verb: derange; disarrange, misarrange; displace, misplace; mislay, discompose, disorder; deorganize, discombobulate, disorganize; embroil, unsettle, disturb, confuse, trouble, perturb, jumble, tumble; shuffle, randomize; huddle, muddle, toss, hustle, fumble, riot; bring into disorder, put into disorder, throw into disorder; muss; break the ranks, disconcert, convulse; break in upon.

Change

Verb: change, alter, vary, wax and wane; modulate, diversify, qualify, tamper with; turn, shift, veer, tack, chop, shuffle, swerve, warp, deviate, turn aside, evert, intervert; pass to, take a turn, turn the corner, resume.

Changeableness

Verb: fluctuate, vary, waver, flounder, flicker, flitter, flit, flutter, shift, shuffle, shake, totter, tremble, vacillate, wamble, turn and turn about, ring the changes; sway to and fro, shift to and fro; change and change about; waffle, blow with the wind (irresolute); oscillate; vibrate between, two extremes, oscillate between, two extremes; alternate; have as man phases as the moon.

Falsehood

Prevaricate, equivocate, quibble; palter, palter to the understanding; repondre en Normand; trim, shuffle, fence, mince the truth, beat about the bush, blow hot and cold, play fast and loose.

Improbity

Verb: be dishonest; Adjective: play false; break one's word, break one's faith, break one's promise; jilt, betray, forswear; shuffle; (lie); live by one's wits, sail near the wind.

Perfidy; perfidiousness; Adjective: treachery, double dealing; unfairness; Adjective: knavery, roguery, rascality, foul play; jobbing, jobbery; graft, bribery; venality, nepotism; corruption, job, shuffle, fishy transaction; barratry, sharp practice, heads I win tails you lose; mouth honor; (flattery).

Interchange

Verb: interchange, exchange, counterchange; bandy, transpose, shuffle, change bands, swap, permute, reciprocate, commute; give and take, return the compliment; play at puss in the corner,Verb: interchange, exchange, counterchange; bandy, transpose, shuffle, change bands, swap, permute, reciprocate, commute; give and take, return the compliment; play at puss in the corner, play at battledore and shuttlecock; retaliate; requite.

Mixture

Verb: mix; join; combine; commix, immix, intermix; mix up with, mingle; commingle, intermingle, bemingle; shuffle; (derange); pound together; hash up, stir up; knead, brew; impregnate with; interlard; (interpolate); intertwine, interweave; associate with; miscegenate.

Slowness

Verb: move slowly; adVerb: creep, crawl, lag, slug, drawl, linger, loiter, saunter; plod, trudge, stump along, lumber; trail, drag; dawdle; (be inactive); grovel, worm one's way, steal along; job on, rub on, bundle on; toddle, waddle, wabble, slug, traipse, slouch, shuffle, halt, hobble, limp, caludicate, shamble; flag, falter, trotter, stagger; mince, step short; march in slow time, march in funeral procession; take one's time; hang fire; (be late).

Tergiversation

Trim, shuffle, play fast and loose, blow hot and cold, coquet, be on the fence, straddle, bold with the hare but run with the hounds; nager entre deux eaux; wait to see how the cat jumps, wait to see how the wind blows.

Untruth

Pretense, pretext; false plea; subterfuge, evasion, shift, shuffle, make-believe; sham; (deception).

Crosswords: Shuffle

German (shuffle).

The rope's just like everything else, I found the rope, and I did it, the same way I can read and write and shuffle a deck of cards (The Bourne Identity; writing credit: Tony Gilroy)

Shuffle it so you can't tell which slice had the bug on it. (Moron Movies; writing credit: Griff Rhys Jones; Mel Smith)

Do the Wall Street shuffle (Wall Street Shuffle; performing artist: 10CC)

To the Harlem shuffle (HARLEM SHUFFLE; performing artist: Rolling Stones)

I dance to the beat, shuffle my feet ("The Message"; performing artist: Grandmaster Flash)

I shuffle to the kitchen for my coffee (This Everyday Love; performing artist: Rascal Flatts)

And do a thing but a-rock and shuffle your feet ("Rapper's Delight"; performing artist: Sugarhill Gang)

I used to be lost in the shuffle. Now I just shuffle along with the lost. (references; author: unknown)

The Sex Shuffle (1968)

Shuffle Rhythm (1942)

Hollywood Shuffle (1987)

Doin' the Harlem Shuffle (1986)

Weekend Shuffle (1982)

Harlem Shuffle (performing artist: Rolling Stones)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• Shuffle Master, Inc.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• El Dorado Shuffle (reference)

• Fast Shuffle (reference)

• Jokertown Shuffle (Wild Cards, Vol 9) (reference)

• SHUFFLE MASTER, INC.: Labor Productivity Benchmarks and International Gap Analysis [DOWNLOAD: ADOBE READER] (reference)

• Southwest Shuffle (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Hollywood Shuffle (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Shuffle Bass Boogie (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Sonic Shuffle (reference)

• Philips AZ105017 CD Boombox with Shuffle Play (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expressions using "shuffle": Double shuffle ♦ Interjection: patience! and shuffle the cards ♦ shuffle board ♦ shuffle in ♦ shuffle into ♦ shuffle into a job ♦ shuffle of cards ♦ shuffle of footsteps ♦ shuffle off ♦ shuffle on ♦ shuffle one's feet ♦ shuffle out ♦ shuffle out of ♦ shuffle out of a tricky situation ♦ shuffle the cards ♦ shuffle through ♦ shuffle through smth.. Additional references.

Beginning with "shuffle": shuffle-board.

Ending with "shuffle": re-shuffle.

Afrikaans

meng (blend, mingle, mix). (various references)

Albanian

shkartisje, shkartis, trazoj (agitate, break up, commingle, dash, dismay, distemper, disturb, fidget, flitter, flurry, fluster, flutter, harass, Harry, incommode, intermix, jumble, knead, perturb, poke, pother, ruffle, stir, turn, vex), tërheq këmbët, përzierje (admixture, amalgamation, blend, chow-chow, commixture, composite, compound, confection, conglomeration, fusion, hash, immixture, implication, interference, interfusion, intermixture, involvement, kneading, malaxation, medley, melange, mingle-mangle, mix, mixing, mixture, olio, omnium gatherum, pasticcio, pastiche, promiscuity, salmagundi, stir, stirring, temper), përziej (admix, adulterate, alloy, attemper, beat, blend, commingle, compound, confound, conglomerate, dash, drag in, embark, emulsify, implicate, intermingle, intermix, jumble, knead, malaxate, mingle, mix, stir), lëvizje sa andej këndej, kërcim me heqeje të këmbëve të zvarrë, heqje zvarrë, heq këmbët zvarrë (scuff), hedh sa andej këndej. (various references)

Arabic 

‏مشى متثاقلا (draggle, shamble, stump), ‏نظم (adjust, arrange, array, bed, cast, code, codify, collocate, compose, construct, control, dispose, fix, form, groom, lay, line, marshal, mastermind, measure, order, organize, plan, poetize, put in order, put things straight, reform, regiment, regulate, regulation, right, seed, settle, shape, sort, spruce up, stage, streamline, systematize, verse), ‏لعبة قذف الحلقات, ‏لخبط (jumble, mess, mess up, tousle), ‏تعديل في المناصب الوزارية, ‏تجنب (avert, avoid, avoidance, bypass, ditch, duck, eschew, eschewal, evade, evasion, fence, fight shy of, flee, get round, give a wide berth, hide, miss, obviate, outrun, parry, put off, save, shirk, shun, shy, sidestep, steer clear of, waive), ‏عدل (adjust, alter, amend, arrange, blue pencil, commute, equal, equate, erect, evenness, fairness, fashion, fix, justice, justness, mend, modify, modulate, overhaul, qualify, reason, recast, reclaim, rectify, redress, regulate, remodel, reshuffle, retrofit, revise, right, righteousness, rightness, straighten, temper), ‏صوت جرجرة الأرجل, ‏خلط ورق اللعب (riffle, ruffle), ‏خلط (admix, alloy, blending, confusion, jumble, metis, mingle, mix, mix up, mixing, mixture, scramble), ‏جر قدميه (scuff). (various references)

Bulgarian 

влачене (crawl, haul, haulage, lug, tow, towage, traction), извъртам (boggle, dodge, double talk, equivocate, pull round, screw, shift, sophisticate, tergiversate, twist, wangle, whiffle), извъртане (chicane, dodge, dodgery, equivocation, evasion, indirection, jugglery, legerdemain, quibble, salvo, taradiddle, tergiversation, torsion, twist), претупвам (scamp, shuffle through, slubber, slur), преразпределение (redistribution, repartition), преразпределям (redistribute, repartition), преустройство (readjustment, realignment, reconstruction, reshuffle), бъркам (churn, make, mistake, mix, mix up, paddle, rabble, rouse, stir), измама (bunco, bunko, cheat, chouse, cozenage, cross, deceit, deception, delusion, do, double cross, double dealing, doubling, dupery, falsity, fiddle, flam, foul play, frame up, fraud, gaff, gag, gouge, guile, gyp, hankey-pankey, hanky panky, have on, hoax, hocus pocus, humbug, imposition, imposture, indirection, jiggery pokery, jockeying, jugglery, kid, lemon, overreach, plant, pretence, put on, rig, rip off, roguery, sell, sellout, sham, simulacrum, skin game, spoof, swindle, take in, thimblerig, trickery, twist), влача се (crawl, linger, lollop, lounge about, plod, roll, shamble, slouch, toil, trapes, trapse, wear away), разместване (dislocation, reversal, shift, translocation), въртя се (circle, fidget, flutter, hover, pivot, reel, swirl, wheel, whirl), шикалкавене (fencing, hedging, quibble, quiddity, quip, runaround), шикалкавя (boggle, fence, hedge, quibble, shift, stall), шавам (budge, fidget, stir, wiggle), тътрене (scuff), тътря се (creep, drag, flop about, jog, lag, scuffle, shamble), разбъркване на карти, размествам (change round, dislocate, interchange, jumble, permute, reverse, transpose, unfix, unsettle), влача си краката (shamble). (various references)

Chinese 

拖曳 (Shuffled, shuffling, tow, Towed, Towing). (various references)

Czech

vytáèet se (fence, hedge one's bets, stall, tergiversate, wriggle out of), promísit, přeházet (disarray), míchání (agitation, mix, mixture, stir), šoupat nohama (scrape one's feet, scuff one's feet), šoupání nohama. (various references)

Danish

blande (blend, mingle, mix). (various references)

Dutch

vermengen (blend, mingle, mix), temperen (blend, harden, mingle, mix, moderate, temper), mixen (blend, mingle, mix), mengen (blend, mingle, mix). (various references)

Esperanto

miksi (blend, mingle, mix). (various references)

Faeroese

blanda (blend, mingle, mix). (various references)

Farsi 

این سووان سوحرکت کردن , بیقراربودن , بهم مخلوطکردن (Commingle), بهم امیختن (Coalesce, Commingle, Fold), برزدن (Reshuffle). (various references)

Finnish

sekoittaa (blend, mingle, mistake for, mix, mix blend, mix in, mix up, muddle, put in, stir, stir up), kömpiä (crawl). (various references)

French

mêler. (various references)

German

schlurfen (scuff, scuffle, shamble, to shuffle), mischen (admixture, blend, blended, blent, compound, interference, make, mash, mell, merge, merging, mingle, mix, mix up, riffle, scramble, to mash, to mell, to mingle, to mix). (various references)

Greek 

σέρνω με τα πόδια (drag my feet, I shuffle my feet), σύρω τουσ ποδάσ (shamble), μετακινώ (get around, move, move remove, redeploy, remove, shift, transfer), υπεκφεύγω (dodge, elude, evade, fudge, palter, prevaricate, quibble, shift, shun, tergiversate), ανάμιξη (interlardment, involvement, mixture), ανακάτεμα χαρτιών, ανακατώνω (admix, alligate, commingle, confound, intermix, jumble, mash, mingle, mix, muss, puddle, riffle, rumple, tousle), αναμιγνύω (admix, blend, commingle, compound, intermingle, mingle, mix, mix up). (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�"שתרך (plod along, straggle), ל�'רור ר�'לים. (various references)

Hungarian

keverés (compounding, mixing, stir, stirring), csoszogás (scuff, shamble, shuffling), sasszé, kifogásokkal élés (prevarication), kibúvó (evasion, loophole, mask, quibble, quip, recourse, resource, subterfuge), kever (blend, blunge, mingle, mix, puddle, stir, to blend, to compound, to dolly, to interlard, to make the cards, to mix, variegate), kertelés (ambages, circumlocution, hedging, prevarication, tergiversation), hímezés-hámozás (prevarication, tergiversation), csoszogó léptek, csoszogó járás (shuffling, shuffling along, slouch), csűrés-csavarás (chicanery, crooked reasoning, quibble, quip). (various references)

Indonesian

mengocok kartu, mengegah (stagger), desak-desakan. (various references)

Italian

mescolare (admix, alloy, blend, compound, concoct, confuse, dose, get mixed up, intermingle, intermix, jumble, lots, mingle, mix, mix up, muddle up, stir). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

シフト�"算機構 (chaconne, chanson, chassis, chemise, Chevrolet, crisp, dish, good time to take a picture, hat, look sharp!, precise, propelling or mechanical pencil, shaggy carpet, shaman, shamanism, shark skin, sharp, sharpener, sherbet, Sherlockian, shift arithmetic unit, shining, shirring, shuffling, shut, shutdown, shutout, shutter, shy, Siberia, simoon, simulate, simulation, simulator, vehicle with body lowered). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

シャッフル . (various references)

Korean 

�'�섞음 (Scrambling, shuffling). (various references)

Malay

mencampuri (blend, mingle, mix). (various references)

Manx

stroogey-cassyn, mestey (churning, compound, confuse, cross-breed, dispense, garble, hybridize, interlace, jumble, mash, miscellany, mix, mixture, promiscuity, stir). (various references)

Norwegian

blande (blend, mingle, mix). (various references)

Papiamen

meskla (blend, mingle, mix), meks (blend, mingle, mix). (various references)

Pig Latin

uffleshay.(various references)

Portuguese

misturar (admix, blend, combine, commingle, concoct, confound, diffuse, draw in, fuse, huddle, incorporate, interfuse, interlace, interlard, intermingle, intermix, involve, jumble, knead, mash, medley, merge, mingle, mix, mix up, temper). (various references)

Romanian

se codi (linger, sway), mişcare necoordonatã, încurca (complicate, confound, confuse, cumber, discomfit, embrangle, embroil, entangle, floor, foul, gravel, hamper, hash, hinder, intertangle, involve, jumble, maze, medley, muddle, nonplus, perplex, pile up, pose, put out, puzzle, restrain, sputter, stump, tangle, trouble), amesteca (admix, adulterate, amalgamate, attemper, blend, combine, commingle, compound, concoct, confound, confuse, cross, dilute, embroil, entangle, immix, interblend, interfuse, intermingle, intermix, intersperse, involve, jumble, medley, melt, merge, mingle, mix, muddle, pie, poison, rabble, temper, work), amestecare (amalgamation, embroilment, immixture, mixture), şiretlic (catch, device, fake, ruse, sharp practice, shift, stratagem, trick, trickery, wile), şovãi (back, boggle, falter, fluctuate, hang back, hesitate, linger, pause, shilly shally, spare, stagger, vacillate, waver), confunda (confound, confuse, misaddress, mistake), confuzie (bewilderment, blankness, clutter, confusion, disorder, distraction, embroilment, fuss, haziness, huddle, hugger mugger, jumble, mix up, muddle, obfuscation, storm, tumble), înşela (abuse, bamboozle, beguile, betray, bluff, cheat, chouse, circumvent, cog, con, cozen, cuckold, deceive, defraud, delude, diddle, disappoint, do, do brown, do something crooked, double cross, dupe, fiddle, frustrate, gag, get round, gull, hocus, hoodwink, humbug, impose, jockey, juggle, mock, mystify, nobble, out-jockey, pigeon, queer, ramp, rook, sharp, swindle, trick, victimize), festã (farce, gammon, hoax, practical joke, prank), zãpãci (addle, bedazzle, bewilder, confound, confuse, daze, disconcert, dizzy, embrangle, entangle, flurry, gravel, jumble, knot, maze, muddle, muss, nonplus, pie, pose), remaniere (reshuffling, shake up), renghi (practical joke), târşâi (scrape), târşâire, tãrãgãna (dally, drawl, drone, hang a leg, Tarry, temporize), umbla târşâind picioarele (shamble), face dezordine în (disarrange, mess). (various references)

Russian 

увиливать (dodge, equivocate, prevaricate, shirk), уловка (artifice, circumvention, come off, dodge, double cross, expedient, gimmick, put off, ruse, shift, stealth, stratagem, strategem, wangle), тасовать, тасование (make), шаркать (scuff, scuffed), шарканье (scrape), меняться местами, ерзать (fidget), перемещать (displace, move, move down, relocate, remove, resettle, scroll, shift, shifted, transfer, translocate, transporting, transpose), перемена мест. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

vući (drag, draw, haul, lug, pull, toil, tow, trail, tug, yank), vrsta plesa (cakewalk, farandole, hustle, jitterbug, musette, tap dance, tapdance), mešati (alloy, blend, jumble, mingle, mix, puddle, rabble, stir), mešanje (alligation, immixture, interference, mixing), geganje (plod, saunter, stagger, waddle). (various references)

Spanish

barajar (make, riffle, throw in). (various references)

Sranan

moksi (blend, mingle, mix). (various references)

Swedish

blanda (admix, amalgemate, blend, compound, hybridize, intermingle, intermix, mingle, mix, toss, touch), gå släpigt. (various references)

Thai

เ�"ินลากเท้า, ผสม (blend, mix, mix up), สับไพ่ (riffle through), การเ�"ินลากเท้า, การสับไพ่, การหลีกเลี่ยง, หลบเลี่ยง (eschew, shun, shy away from). (various references)

Turkish

sakınmak (abstain, avoid, be careful not to, be cautious, be wary of, be wary of doing smth., beg, beware, cradle, eschew, evade, flee from, flinch, forbear, hang back, keep clear of, refrain, shun, shy, steer clear of, Stow), sürtünerek gitmek, sürtünerek gitme, sözü değiştirmek, karma (combined, composite, integrated, karma, mixed, mixing, olio, public-private, shuffling), ayak diremek (balk, balk at, baulk, insist, jib, put one's foot down, refuse, shuffle one's feet), ayaklarını sürüme, ayaklarını sürümek (scuff, scuffle), elden ele dolaştırma, elden ele dolaştırmak, kıpırdanmak (move, toss, wriggle), kâğıtları karmak (shuffle the cards), kaçırmak (abduct, blow, chill, exude, flush, give off, hijack, kidnap, ladder, let escape, let slip, lose, make off with, Miss, ooze, pass up, put off, rape, ravish, slip, snatch, spirit away, spoil, whisk), kaçamak cevap verme, ağız yapmak, karıştırmak (add, admix, amalgamate, blend, churn, commingle, commix, complicate, concoct, confound, confuse, darken, diffuse, disarrange, disarray, discompose, disconcert, disorder, disorganize, disturb, embroil, entangle, ferret about, foul, foul up, hash, implicate, interfuse, interlace, interlard, intermingle, intermix, involve, inweave, jumble, jumble together, jumble up, knot, litter, make hay of smth., meld, mess, mess smth. about, mess up, mingle, mistake, mix, mix up, monkey around with, monkey with, muddle, muss, pick, poke, poke up, Ravel, ruffle, scramble, scramble together, scramble up, snarl, stir, stir up, tamper with, tangle, tousle, trim, tumble, unsettle, weave), yerinde duramamak (be unable to contain oneself for, diddle), karman çorman etmek (confuse, hash up, make a hash of, mix up, rough up, rumple), kaytarmak (dodge, duck, evade, loaf, loaf about, loaf around, scrimshank, shirk, skip, skive, skive off, skulk, sneak out of, swing the lead), kem küm etme (hums and haws), kem küm etmek (haw, hum and haw), yer değiştirme (permutation, removal, shift, substitution, supersession), karıştırma (admixture, adulteration, browsing, combination, commixture, compound, confusion, intermixture, mix, mixing, mixture, shuffling, stir, stirring). (various references)

Turkmen 

pьrkmek (splash, sprinkle), garmak (mix with). (various references)

Ukrainian

ухилятися (avoid, back out, balk, blench, crawfish, depart, digress, dodge, elude, equivocate, eschew, evade, flunk, jink, obviate, prevaricate, shirk, sidestep, squirm, weasel, weave, wriggle), соватися (niggle), совання (squirm), човгати, човгання (scuffle), тасувати, тасування, виверт (afterthought, amphibology, amphiboly, circumvention, elusion, evasion, expedient, put off, quirk, shift, wangle). (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự thoái thác (prevarication, repudiation), lượt xáo b� i sự xáo trộn sự ăn nói mập mờ, h� nh động lẩn tránh, h� nh động lừa dối. (various references)

Welsh

siffrwd (rustle). (various references)

Yucatec

xa'ak'tik (blend, mingle, mix). (various references)

miscere, tricari. (various references)

shovelen. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "shuffle": shuffleboard, shuffleboards, shuffled, shuffler, shufflers, shuffles. (additional references)

Words ending with "shuffle": reshuffle. (additional references)

Words containing "shuffle": reshuffled, reshuffles. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Shuffle" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Schnuffler, Sheffe, Shefqet, shelfful, shuff, shuffalot, shuffel, shuffly, shufle, Shurflo, skuffle, smuffle. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: flesh, flues, flush, fuels, fusel, huffs, luffs, shelf, sluff.

-3 letters: effs, fehs, feus, flue, flus, fuel, fuse, hues, huff, lues, luff, lush, self, shul, slue.

-4 letters: eff, efs, elf, els, feh, feu, flu, hes, hue, leu, sel, she, sue, use.

-5 letters: ef, eh, el, es, he, sh, uh, us.

+1 letter: shelfful, shuffled, shuffler, shuffles.

+2 letters: reshuffle, shelffuls, shufflers.

+3 letters: reshuffled, reshuffles.

+4 letters: buffleheads, reshuffling.

+5 letters: faithfulness, foresightful, shuffleboard.