shuffle

Meaning

Noun

1. The act of mixing cards or mah-jong tiles so as to randomize them.
2. The act of reordering anything, such as music tracks in a media player.
3. An instance of walking without lifting one's feet.
4. (broadly) 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.
5. A dance move in which the foot is scuffed back and forth across the floor.
6. A trick; an artifice; an evasion.

Verb

1. (ambitransitive) To put in a random order.
2. To change; modify the order of something.
3. (ambitransitive) To move in a slovenly, dragging manner; to drag or scrape the feet in walking or dancing.
4. To change one's position; to shift ground; to evade questions; to resort to equivocation; to prevaricate.
5. To use arts or expedients; to make shift.
6. To shove one way and the other; to push from one to another.
7. To remove or introduce by artificial confusion.

Synonyms

mix

mingle

blend

shamble

scuffle

shuffling

shift

jumble

rearrange

hobble

make

change

ruffle

drag along

compound

scramble

scuff

prevaricate

shambling

admix

alteration

slide

slip

strife

struggle

reshuffle

mixture

mix up

commingle

dodge

palter

remove

resend

return

reverse

revolve

riffle

rub

rumple

saunter

send back

shovel

shun

slant

slouch

slow

tergiversate

tousle

transfer

trick

Translations

mezclar

mengen

embaralhar

mélanger

mixen

schlurfen

vermengen

mesclar

miscere

barrejar

mescolare

mischen

temperen

misturar

barajar

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈʃʌfəl/

Etymology

Originally the same word as scuffle, and properly a frequentative of shove.