[shuf.fle] vb shuf.fled ; shuf.fling [perh. irreg. fr. [1]shove] vt (1570) 1: to mix in a mass confusedly: jumble
2: to put or thrust aside or under cover "shuffled the whole matter out of his mind" 3 a: to rearrange (as playing cards, dominoes, or tiles) to produce a random order b: to move about, back and forth, or from one place to another: shift "~ funds among various accounts"
4. a: to move (as the feet) by sliding along or back and forth without lifting b: to perform (as a dance) with a dragging, sliding step ~ vi 1: to work into or out of trickily "shuffled out of the difficulty"
2: to act or speak in a shifty or evasive manner 3 a: to move or walk in a sliding dragging manner without lifting the feet b: to dance in a lazy nonchalant manner with sliding and tapping motions of the feet c: to execute in a perfunctory or clumsy manner
4: to mix playing cards or counters by shuffling -- shuf.fler n
[2]shuffle n (1628) 1: an evasion of the issue: equivocation
2. a: an act of shuffling (as of cards) b: a right or turn to shuffle "was reminded that it was his ~" c: jumble "lost in the ~ of papers" 3 a: a dragging sliding movement; specif: a sliding or scraping step in dancing b: a dance characterized by such a step