shuffle

shuffle
    n 1: the act of mixing cards haphazardly [syn: {shuffle},
         {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}, {shuffle}, {shuffling}]
    v 1: walk by dragging one's feet; "he shuffled out of the room";
         "We heard his feet shuffling down the hall" [syn:
         {shuffle}, {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: {shuffle}, {ruffle}, {mix}]
    

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.
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   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.
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            A man may shuffle cards or rattle dice from noon to
            midnight without tracing a new idea in his mind.
                                                  --Rombler.
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   3. To remove or introduce by artificial confusion.
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            It was contrived by your enemies, and shuffled into
            the papers that were seizen.          --Dryden.
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   {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.
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Shuffle \Shuf"fle\, v. i.
   1. To change the relative position of cards in a pack; as, to
      shuffle and cut.
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   2. To change one's position; to shift ground; to evade
      questions; to resort to equivocation; to prevaricate.
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            I myself, . . . hiding mine honor in my necessity,
            am fain to shuffle.                   --Shak.
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   3. To use arts or expedients; to make shift.
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            Your life, good master,
            Must shuffle for itself.              --Shak.
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   4. To move in a slovenly, dragging manner; to drag or scrape
      the feet in walking or dancing.
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            The aged creature came
            Shuffling along with ivory-headed wand. --Keats.
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   Syn: To equivicate; prevaricate; quibble; cavil; shift;
        sophisticate; juggle.
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Shuffle \Shuf"fle\, n.
   1. The act of shuffling; a mixing confusedly; a slovenly,
      dragging motion.
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            The unguided agitation and rude shuffles of matter.
                                                  --Bentley.
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   2. A trick; an artifice; an evasion.
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            The gifts of nature are beyond all shame and
            shuffles.                             --L'Estrange.
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291 Moby Thesaurus words for "shuffle":
      admix, alloy, alternate, amalgamate, amble, andante,
      around the bush, back and fill, ball up, barge, beat about,
      befuddlement, beg the question, bemingle, bewilderment, bicker,
      blend, boggle, bollix up, bother, botheration, bowl along, bumble,
      bundle, cavil, chaos, choplogic, claudication, clog, cloud, clump,
      coalesce, combine, commingle, commix, compose, compound, concoct,
      confound, confuse, confusion, conglomerate, crawl, creep, dance,
      daze, dead march, disarrange, disarray, discombobulation,
      discomfiture, discompose, discomposure, disconcertion, dislocate,
      disorder, disorganization, disorganize, disorientation, disrupt,
      disturb, disturbance, dodge, dodging, dogtrot, drag, draggle,
      droop, ebb and flow, embarrassment, emulsify, equivocate,
      equivocation, evade, evade the issue, evasion, fence, fencing,
      flounce, flounder, fluctuate, flummox, flurry, fluster, flutter,
      fog, foot, footpace, footslog, foul up, fox-trot, frenzy, fuddle,
      fuddlement, fumble, funeral march, fuse, gait, gallop, garble,
      go through phases, halt, hash, haze, hedge, hem and haw,
      hippety-hop, hitch, hobble, homogenize, hoof, hop, hum and haw,
      immingle, immix, integrate, interblend, interlace, interlard,
      intermingle, intermix, intersperse, intertwine, interweave,
      jesuitism, jog, jog trot, jolt, jumble, jump, jungle, knead,
      leisurely gait, limp, litter, lock step, lumber, lumbering pace,
      lunge, lurch, mash, maze, merge, mess, mess up, mince,
      mincing steps, mingle, mingle-mangle, mishmash, mist, mix, mix up,
      muck up, muddle, muddlement, mystify, niggle, nitpick, obscure,
      oscillate, pace, pad, paddle, palter, parry, parrying, peg,
      pendulate, perplexity, perturbation, pi, piaffe, piaffer,
      pick nits, play hob with, plod, pother, prance, prevaricate,
      prevarication, pucker, pussyfoot, quibble, quiddity, quillet, quip,
      quirk, quodlibet, rack, rearrange, riffle, ring the changes, roll,
      ruffle, rummage, sashay, saunter, scatter, scramble, scrape,
      scrape along, scraping, screw up, scuff, scuffle, scuttle, seesaw,
      shake, shamble, shift, shift about, shimmy, shovel, shuffling, shy,
      sidestep, sidle, single-foot, skip, slink, slipper, slither, slog,
      slouch, slow march, slow motion, slowness, slur, snafu, snarl up,
      split hairs, stagger, stalk, stamp, step, stew, stir up, stomp,
      straddle, straggle, stride, stroll, strolling gait, strut, stump,
      subterfuge, suppressio veri, swagger, sway, sweat, swing, swivet,
      syncretize, tap-dance, teeter, teeter-totter, tergiversate,
      tergiversation, throw together, tittup, tizzy, toddle,
      toss together, totter, traipse, tread, trick, trip, trot, trudge,
      tumble, turn, turn topsy-turvy, unsettlement, upset, vacillate,
      vary, velocity, waddle, waffle, walk, waltz, wamble, waver,
      wax and wane, weasel, weasel words, wiggle, wobble, work