# shuffle
## English
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈʃʌfəl/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -ʌfəl

### Noun

shuffle (plural shuffles)
* The act of shuffling cards.
    He made a real mess of the last shuffle.
* The act of reordering anything, such as music tracks in a media player.
* An instance of walking without lifting one's feet.
    The sad young girl left with a tired shuffle.
* (by extension, music) 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.
* (dance) A dance move in which the foot is scuffed across the floor back and forth.
* A trick; an artifice; an evasion.
** 1692, Roger L’Estrange, “ (please specify the fable number.) (please specify the name of the fable.)”, in Fables, of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists: […], London: […] R[ichard] Sare, […], →OCLC:The Gifts of Nature are beyond all the Shams and Shuffles in the World.

#### Quotations

* 1995, Mel Kernahan, White savages in the South Seas, Verso, page 113:As I lay there listening to the strange night sounds, I hear the shuffle of someone creeping by outside in the grass.
* 2003, Edmund G. Bansak, Robert Wise, Fearing the Dark: The Val Lewton Career, McFarland, page 394:She has a crippled leg, and every time she walks we hear the shuffle of her crinoline skirt and the thumping of her cane.
* 2008, Markus Zusak, The Book Thief, Pan Macmillan Australia, page 148:Around her, she could hear the shuffle of her own hands, disturbing the shelves.

#### Derived terms

* auto-shuffle
* Brixton shuffle
* double shuffle
* double-shuffle
* Fisher-Yates shuffle
* five-knuckle shuffle
* Kansas City shuffle
* Largactil shuffle
* lost in the shuffle
* mana shuffle
* Melbourne shuffle
* riffle shuffle
* shuffle algebra
* shuffle product
* shuffle steer
* Thorazine shuffle
* three-card shuffle
* truffle shuffle
* Zarrow shuffle

#### Translations
### Verb

shuffle (third-person singular simple present shuffles, present participle shuffling, simple past and past participle shuffled)
* (ambitransitive) To put in a random order.
    Don't forget to shuffle the cards.
    You shuffle, and I'll deal.
    The data packets are shuffled before transmission.
    I'm going to shuffle all the songs in my playlist.
* To change; modify the order of something.
** 2010 December 28, Marc Vesty, “Stoke 0 – 2 Fulham”, in BBC Sport‎:But, rather than make a change up front, Hughes shuffled his defence for this match, replacing Carlos Salcido with Baird, in a move which few would have predicted would prove decisive.
* (ambitransitive) To move in a slovenly, dragging manner; to drag or scrape the feet in walking or dancing.
    He shuffled out of the room.
    I shuffled my feet in embarrassment.
** 1819, John Keats, “The Eve of St. Agnes”, in Lamia, Isabella, the Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems, London: […] [Thomas Davison] for Taylor and Hessey, […], published 1820, →OCLC, stanza XI, page 88:[T]he aged creature came, / Shuffling along with ivory-headed wand, […]
** 1954, Alexander Alderson, chapter 4, in The Subtle Minotaur‎:Even when the other instruments were resting the pianist kept up his monotonous vamping, with a dreary furbelow for embellishment here and there, to which some few of the dancers continued to shuffle round the floor.
** 1973, “Piano Man”, Billy Joel (music):The regular crowd shuffle in
* To change one's position; to shift ground; to evade questions; to resort to equivocation; to prevaricate.
** c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:I myself, […] hiding mine honour in my necessity, am fain to shuffle.
* To use arts or expedients; to make shift.
** 1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene v]:Your life, good master, / Must shuffle for itself.
* To shove one way and the other; to push from one to another.
    to shuffle money from hand to hand
* To remove or introduce by artificial confusion.
** 1682, [John Dryden], “Epistle to the Whigs”, in The Medall. A Satyre Against Sedition. […], Edinburgh: [s.n.], →OCLC:Therefore you do vvell to have recourſe to your laſt Evaſion, that it vvas contriv'd by your Enemies, and ſhuffled into the Papers that vvere ſeiz'd: vvhich yet you ſee the Nation is not ſo eaſy to believe as your ovvn Fury; […]

#### Synonyms

* (walk without picking up one's feet): shamble

#### Derived terms

* bum shuffle
* deshuffle
* double-shuffle
* reshuffle
* shufflable, shuffleable
* shuffleboard
* shuffle off
* shuffle off this mortal coil
* shuffler
* shuffle the cards
* shuffle the chairs on the deck of the Titanic
* shuffle the deckchairs on the Titanic
* shuffle up
* unshufflable
* unshuffleable

#### Translations
## Norwegian Bokmål
### Etymology

From English shuffle.

### Verb

shuffle (present tense shuffler, simple past and past participle shufflet)
* to shuffle (including dancing the shuffle, playing shuffleboard)

### References

* “shuffle_2” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).