- The act of shuffling; a mixing confusedly; a slovenly,
dragging motion. - A trick; an artifice; an evasion.
2 . Shuffle
[ v. i.]
- To change the relative position of cards in a pack; as,
to shuffle and cut. - To change one's position; to shift ground; to evade
questions; to resort to equivocation; to prevaricate. - To use arts or expedients; to make shift. - To move in a slovenly, dragging manner; to drag or
scrape the feet in walking or dancing.
3 . Shuffle
[ v. t.]
- To shove one way and the other; to push from one to
another; as, to shuffle money from hand to hand. - 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. - To remove or introduce by artificial confusion.
Meaning of 'shuffle' (Princeton's WordNet)
1 . shuffle
[ n]
Meaning (1): - walking with a slow dragging motion without lifting your feet
Example in sentence:
from his shambling I assumed he was very old
2 . shuffle
[ v]
Meaning (2): - move about, move back and forth
Example in sentence:
He shuffled his funds among different accounts in various countries so as to avoid the IRS
Meaning (3): - walk by dragging one's feet
Example in sentence:
he shuffled out of the room;
We heard his feet shuffling down the hall
Meaning (4): - mix so as to make a random order or arrangement