SHUFFLE

I. verb (~d; shuffling) Etymology: perhaps irregular from 1shove Date: 1570 transitive verb to mix in a mass confusedly ; jumble , to put or thrust aside or under cover , 3. to rearrange (as playing cards, dominoes, or tiles) to produce a random order, to move about, back and forth, or from one place to another ; shift , 4. to move (as the feet) by sliding along or back and forth without lifting, to perform (as a dance) with a dragging, sliding step, intransitive verb to work into or out of trickily , to act or speak in a shifty or evasive manner, 3. to move or walk in a sliding dragging manner without lifting the feet, to dance in a lazy nonchalant manner with sliding and tapping motions of the feet, to execute in a perfunctory or clumsy manner, to mix playing cards or counters by shuffling, ~r noun II. noun Date: 1628 an evasion of the issue ; equivocation, 2. an act of shuffling (as of cards), a right or turn to ~ , a confusing jumble (as of papers or events) , 3. a dragging sliding movement, a dance characterized by such a step, c. a rhythm where each beat of the measure is played as a triplet with the first and second parts of the triplet tied and the third part accented, music played in a ~ rhythm