shufflen.
/ˈʃʌf(ə)l/ΘΚΠ
the world > space > place > placing or fact of being placed in (a) position > [noun] > placing or being placed in different position > instance of
shuffle1674
shift-round1940
1674 N. Fairfax Treat. Bulk & Selvedge 100 The very life and soul of motion is shuffle or sawing.
1692 R. Bentley Boyle Lect. i. 27 The unguided agitation and rude shuffles of Matter.
2. A tricky exchange or alternation (of arguments, expedients, etc.).
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the world > time > change > exchange > [noun] > instance of
achange1530
chopping and changing1548
swap1625
shuffle1641
general post1879
musical chairs1958
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > evasive deception, shiftiness > [noun] > an evasion, subterfuge > in exchange
shuffle1641
switcheroo1933
1641 J. Milton Animadversions Pref. 3 With a slye shuffle of counterfeit principles chopping and changing till hee have glean'd all the good ones out of their minds.
1860 S. Smiles Self-help (new ed.) viii. 215 Life becomes a mere shuffle of expedients.
3. An evasive trick, evasion, subterfuge.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > evasive deception, shiftiness > [noun] > an evasion, subterfuge
evasionc1425
shift1545
subterfuge1563
tergiversation1570
amusement1603
shuffle1628
subterfugy1637
salvo1665
jank1705
fudge1797
shiffle-shufflea1871
1628 O. Felltham Resolves: 2nd Cent. ii. sig. H2v All the vnwelcome Shuffles that the poore rude World puts on him.
1653 H. More Antidote against Atheisme iii. iv. §5 A man that is unwilling to admit of anything supernatural would please himself with this general shuffle and put-off.
1690 C. Ness Compl. Hist. & Myst. Old & New Test. I. 46 Adam's first reason or shuffle was that he heard Gods voice.
1737 D. Waterland Rev. Doctr. Eucharist 85 Socinus's pretended Reasons..were mere shuffle and pretence.
1842 G. S. Faber Provinc. Lett. (1844) II. 316 So as to leave no room for shuffle or evasion.
1861 S. Brooks Silver Cord (1865) xli. 225 That seems a shuffle. You can say where the documents are, if you please to do so.
1893 M. Pemberton Iron Pirate 201 You'll answer it now, yes or no, plain word and no shuffle.
4. Movement of the feet along the ground without lifting them; a gait characterized by such movement.
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the world > movement > progressive motion > walking > [noun] > manner of walking > shuffling
shuffling1608
scuffling1797
shuffle1847
1847 L. Hunt Men, Women, & Bks. I. iv. 62 The bear..dancing him from side to side in its heavy shuffle.
1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. v. 533 His gait distinguished from that of other men by a peculiar shuffle.
1862 Frederick Lillywhite's Cricket Scores & Biogr. Cricketers I. 436 In delivering the ball he neither ran nor walked up to the crease, but advanced with a sort of ‘shuffle’.
1886 G. R. Sims Ring o' Bells 10 The shuffle of little tired feet along the passage.
5. A dance of a simple kind in which the feet are shuffled along the floor; spec. a modern popular dance to jazz or rock and roll music, evolved originally from African-American folk-dance; the music to which this is danced. double shuffle n. one in which two movements of the same kind are made by each foot alternately.
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society > leisure > dancing > types of dance or dancing > other dances > [noun]
dance of Macabre?c1430
springc1450
lege de moya1529
bobc1550
lusty gallant1569
duret1613
fading1613
huckler1617
ground-measure1621
entry1631
slatter de pouchc1640
ballo1651
Irish trot1651
omnium gatheruma1652
clutterdepouch1652
upspring1654
passacaglia1659
shuffle1659
passacaille1667
flip-flap1676
chaconne1685
charmer1702
Cheshire-round1706
Louvre1729
stick dance1730
white joke1730
baby dance1744
Nancy Dawson1766
fricassee1775
bumpkin1785
Totentanz1789
Flora('s) dance1790
goombay1790
egg-dance1801
supper dance1820
Congo dance1823
slip-jig1829
bran-dance1833
roly-poly1833
Congo1835
mazy1841
furry1848
bull-dance1855
stampede1856
double-shuffling1859
frog dance1863
hokee-pokee1873
plait dance1876
slow dancing1884
snake dance1895
beast dance1900
soft-shoe1900
cakewalk1902
floral dance1911
snake dance1911
apache dance1912
grizzly bear1912
jazz dance1917
jazz dancing1917
jazz1919
wine-dance1920
camel-walk1921
furry dance1928
snake-dance1931
pas d'action1936
trance dancing1956
touch dance1965
hokey-cokey1966
moonwalk1969
moonwalking1983
Crip Walk1989
mapantsula1990
society > leisure > dancing > types of dance or dancing > other popular 20th-century dances > [noun]
mashed potato1747
bunny hug1912
chicken scratch1912
bunny-hugging1916
jazz1919
black bottom1925
shuffle1925
Mess Around1926
snake hips1933
Susie-Q1936
Lambeth Walk1937
bunny hop1938
bop1956
pony1961
Watusi1961
locomotion1962
mash potato1962
frug1964
hully gully1964
dancercise1967
pogo1977
moonwalking1980
slam dance1981
slam dancing1981
body-popping1982
b-boying1984
mosh1985
moshing1987
1659 H. More Immortality of Soul ii. xviii. 321 The rude shuffles and dancings of the Cretick Corybantes.
1821 P. Egan Life in London ii. v. 287 The kidwys and kiddiesses were footing the double shuffle against each other.
1837 F. Marryat Snarleyyow (ed. 2) I. x. 115 He would warm himself with the double-shuffle.
1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast xxiii. 235 We all turned-to and had a regular sailor's shuffle, till eight bells.
1842 C. Dickens Amer. Notes I. vi. 218 Single shuffle, double shuffle, cut and cross-cut.
1894 E. Scott Dancing 84 The hornpipe step, familiarly known as the double-shuffle.
1925 (title of jazz piece) Shanghai Shuffle.
1935 K. Burchill Step Dancing iv. 14 Swing the leg forward from the knee, so that the ball of your foot strikes the ground as it comes through... From this position swing the lower part of the leg back to its original position, striking the ground at the same time with the ball of the foot... These two movements..done in this order, constitute what is known as the ‘Shuffle’.
1955 O. Keepnews & W. Grauer Pict. Hist. Jazz ix 97 Such slightly later recordings as Riverboat Shuffle.
1956 M. Stearns Story of Jazz (1957) xvii. 203 The arrangements now sound heavy and cluttered and the rhythm was almost of the ‘shuffle’ variety.
1976 J. van de Wetering Corpse on Dike (1977) xvi. 159 The combo..played a slow shuffle, very easy to get into.
6.
a. The act of shuffling playing-cards; also elliptical (a player's) turn to shuffle.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > [noun] > actions or tactics > dealing, cutting, or shuffling
shuffling1579
deal1607
shuffle1651
lifting1674
cut1729
misdeal1797
riffle1862
ruffle1872
long deal1893
handout1904
1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan i. xi. 48 Nor any such hope to mend an ill game, as by causing a new shuffle.
1729 J. Swift Jrnl. Dublin Lady 6 How can the Muse..in harmonious Numbers put the Deal, the Shuffle, and the Cut?
1894 F. M. Elliot Rom. Gossip v. 162 The next shuffle of the cards finds him leading a hermit's life.
1894 J. N. Maskelyne ‘Sharps & Flats’ 140 To allow a certain number of cards to remain undisturbed is a comparatively simple matter in any shuffle.
b. lost in the shuffle: overlooked or missed in the mêlée or multitude. U.S.
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the mind > possession > loss > [adjective] > lost > in the crowd
lost in the shuffle1930
1930 D. Runyon in Collier's 22 Mar. 21/4 I find we are about lost in the shuffle of guys with little mustaches.
1955 New Yorker 11 June 74/3 Mr. Ewell's efforts to be quietly funny are lost in the shuffle.
1981 W. Safire in N.Y. Times Mag. 8 Feb. 12/2 The book itself would then get lost in the shuffle.
c. transferred. A redistribution of ministerial posts within a government or cabinet. Cf. reshuffle n.
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society > authority > office > appointment to office > [noun] > redistribution of ministerial posts
reshuffle1897
shuffle1941
1941 C. Mackenzie Red Tapeworm xxii. 296 I hope we shall have no more of these Cabinet shuffles for the time being!
1966 C. Mackenzie Paper Lives xiv. 184 Mr Williamson, who was hoping like Mr Upjohn to find himself in the Cabinet at the next shuffle, ceased to argue.
1976 J. I. M. Stewart Memorial Service xiii. 204 The government was judged likely soon to undergo one of those ‘shuffles’ that English political mythology declares to be periodically essential.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
shufflev.
/ˈʃʌf(ə)l/ 1. in extended use.1576 R. Peterson tr. G. della Casa Galateo (1892) 80 If a man or woman should..shuffle backwarde vpon their taile.1845 P. H. Gosse Ocean (1849) ii. 81 [Plaice] reside wholly upon the bottom [of the sea], shuffling along by waving their flattened bodies, fringed with dorsal and anal fins.1874 J. G. Wood Out of Doors 7 The creature shuffles along..by help of its arms.figurative.1922 A. Huxley Mortal Coils 124 One has to bring them [sc. obituary notices] up to date every year or so for fear of being caught napping if one of these old birds chooses to shuffle off suddenly.1977 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 4 Aug. 29/3 She thought—if one had to ‘shuffle off’—it would be terrific to be electrocuted while playing a bass guitar in a rock group.
a. intransitive. To move the feet along the ground without lifting them, so as to make a scraping noise; to walk with such a motion of the feet; to go with clumsy steps or a shambling gait; also said of the feet. Often with adverbs. Also (colloquial) figurative with off to die; (in playful allusion to Hamlet: see sense 5d).
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the world > life > death > [verb (intransitive)]
forsweltc888
sweltc888
adeadeOE
deadc950
wendeOE
i-wite971
starveOE
witea1000
forfereOE
forthfareOE
forworthc1000
to go (also depart , pass, i-wite, chare) out of this worldOE
queleOE
fallOE
to take (also nim, underfo) (the) deathOE
to shed (one's own) blood?a1100
diec1135
endc1175
farec1175
to give up the ghostc1175
letc1200
aswelta1250
leavea1250
to-sweltc1275
to-worthc1275
to yield (up) the ghost (soul, breath, life, spirit)c1290
finea1300
spilla1300
part?1316
to leese one's life-daysa1325
to nim the way of deathc1325
to tine, leave, lose the sweatc1330
flit1340
trance1340
determinec1374
disperisha1382
to go the way of all the eartha1382
to be gathered to one's fathers1382
miscarryc1387
shut1390
goa1393
to die upa1400
expirea1400
fleea1400
to pass awaya1400
to seek out of lifea1400–50
to sye hethena1400
tinea1400
trespass14..
espirec1430
to end one's days?a1439
decease1439
to go away?a1450
ungoc1450
unlivec1450
to change one's lifea1470
vade1495
depart1501
to pay one's debt to (also the debt of) naturea1513
to decease this world1515
to go over?1520
jet1530
vade1530
to go westa1532
to pick over the perch1532
galpa1535
to die the death1535
to depart to God1548
to go home1561
mort1568
inlaikc1575
shuffle1576
finish1578
to hop (also tip, pitch over, drop off, etc.) the perch1587
relent1587
unbreathe1589
transpass1592
to lose one's breath1596
to make a die (of it)1611
to go offa1616
fail1623
to go out1635
to peak over the percha1641
exita1652
drop1654
to knock offa1657
to kick upa1658
to pay nature her due1657
ghost1666
to march off1693
to die off1697
pike1697
to drop off1699
tip (over) the perch1699
to pass (also go, be called, etc.) to one's reward1703
sink1718
vent1718
to launch into eternity1719
to join the majority1721
demise1727
to pack off1735
to slip one's cable1751
turf1763
to move off1764
to pop off the hooks1764
to hop off1797
to pass on1805
to go to glory1814
sough1816
to hand in one's accounts1817
to slip one's breatha1819
croak1819
to slip one's wind1819
stiffen1820
weed1824
buy1825
to drop short1826
to fall (a) prey (also victim, sacrifice) to1839
to get one's (also the) call1839
to drop (etc.) off the hooks1840
to unreeve one's lifeline1840
to step out1844
to cash, pass or send in one's checks1845
to hand in one's checks1845
to go off the handle1848
to go under1848
succumb1849
to turn one's toes up1851
to peg out1852
walk1858
snuff1864
to go or be up the flume1865
to pass outc1867
to cash in one's chips1870
to go (also pass over) to the majority1883
to cash in1884
to cop it1884
snuff1885
to belly up1886
perch1886
to kick the bucket1889
off1890
to knock over1892
to pass over1897
to stop one1901
to pass in1904
to hand in one's marble1911
the silver cord is loosed1911
pip1913
to cross over1915
conk1917
to check out1921
to kick off1921
to pack up1925
to step off1926
to take the ferry1928
peg1931
to meet one's Maker1933
to kiss off1935
to crease it1959
zonk1968
cark1977
to cark it1979
to take a dirt nap1981
the world > movement > progressive motion > walking > walk, tread, or step [verb (intransitive)] > shuffle or drag the feet
shuffle1576
shauchle1721
slare1726
shaffle1781
scuffle1825
slodge1829
scuff1847
slip-slop1870
slur1889
1598 J. Marston Scourge of Villanie To Perusers sig. B4v Both of them goe a good seemely pace, not stumbling, shuffling.
1627 M. Drayton Battaile Agincourt 59 Another, his [arms] had shackled by the feete; Who like a Cripple shuffled on the ground.
1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 350 The Bear..shuffling along at a strange Rate.
1778 F. Burney Evelina III. ii. 14 He came shuffling into the room with his boots on.
1810 G. Crabbe Borough xiii. 185 An old brown Poney..Who shuffled onward, and from side to side.
1819 W. Scott Bride of Lammermoor ix, in Tales of my Landlord 3rd Ser. I. 266 In making his bow, one foot shuffled forward..the other backward.
1827 W. Scott Jrnl. 5 Jan. (1941) 3 I..can now shufle about and help myself to what I want.
1852 W. M. Thackeray Henry Esmond I. i. 27 Shuffling backwards out of doors in the presence of the sovereign.
1902 R. Bagot Donna Diana v. 43 The electric bell..rang... The servants shuffled to their feet and went to answer it.
b. To move restlessly or fidget in one's seat.
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the world > movement > restlessness > [verb (intransitive)] > in a seat
shuffle1881
1881 Durham Univ. Jrnl. 17 Dec. 133 They shuffle on their seats and become impatient.
1895 ‘H. S. Merriman’ Grey Lady ii. ii Captain Bontnor shuffled in his seat and likewise in his speech.
c. transitive. To move (the feet) along the ground or floor without raising them.
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the world > movement > progressive motion > walking > walk upon or tread [verb (transitive)] > shuffle (the feet)
shuffle1576
1576 R. Peterson tr. G. della Casa Galateo (1892) 17 Some men vse to..playe the dromme with their fingers, or shoofle their feete.
1820 J. Keats Lamia i, in Lamia & Other Poems 23 Men, women, rich and poor..Shuffled their sandals o'er the pavement white.
1833 H. Martineau Briery Creek v. 114 Two or three boys and girls shuffled their feet on the matting.
d. To perform (a dance or a dance-step) with a shuffle. Also absol. or intransitive.
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society > leisure > dancing > style or manner of dancing > [verb (intransitive)]
frisk?1520
hobble1535
caper1598
to cut a caper or capersa1616
to dance Barnaby1664
to dance low1667
jig1672
to fike and flinga1689
shuffle1819
slow-step1909
dingolay1935
touch-dance1972
headbang1977
to funk out1979
to strut one's funky stuff1979
krump2004
1819 W. Scott Bride of Lammermoor xii, in Tales of my Landlord 3rd Ser. I. 331 Bruin..rose up upon his hind-legs, and instantly began to shuffle a saraband.
1833 Lett. President's Tour by Major Jack Downing x. 33 ‘Change partners, and shuffle the next’; and so they chang'd, and shuffled and changed.
1872 ‘Aliph Cheem’ Lays of Ind (1876) 5 Girls..who shuffled and beat A strange time with their feet.
2. Proverb.1620 T. Shelton tr. M. de Cervantes Don Quixote III. xxiii. 160 O Cousin, I say, Patience and Shuffle.a1839 W. M. Praed Poems (1864) II. 141 And cut the fiercest quarrels short With—‘Patience, gentlemen—and shuffle!’
a. To manipulate (the cards in a pack) so as to change their relative position, with the object of preventing the players from knowing the order in which the cards lie. Formerly frequently in allusive use, to shuffle the cards = to manipulate matters.
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the world > action or operation > ability > skill or skilfulness > cunning > be cunning or act cunningly [verb (intransitive)] > manage or manoeuvre
to shuffle the cards1570
to work one's ticketa1599
manoeuvre1801
to work the oracle1823
1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Piiv/2 To Shuffle cardes, confundere.
1577 tr. ‘F. de L'Isle’ Legendarie sig. Gviijv Al was but a new practise whereby to shuffle the cardes as we say, and so to heape one discord vpon another.
1591 J. Florio Second Frutes 69 Goe to, shooffell the cardes verie well.
1596 T. Nashe Haue with you to Saffron-Walden sig. M3 They fell to dansing..; in a trice so they shuffled the cards of purpose..that..he must tread the measures about with the foulest..fury that might be.
1638 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy (ed. 5) iii. iii. i. ii. 602 They turned up trumpe, before the Cards were shufled.
1643 E. Bowles Plaine Eng. 17 [They] had shuffled their cards so cunningly as to be out of the reach of law.
1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 50. ⁋11 He is now shuffling the Cards, and dealing to Timothy.
1717 M. Prior Alma ii. 235 We sure in vain the cards condemn: Ourselves both cut and shuffled them.
1785 W. Cowper Task i. 474 To deal and shuffle, to divide and sort, Her mingled suits and sequences.
1829 E. Bulwer-Lytton Devereux I. i. iv. 44 Let us see if, at sixteen, we cannot shuffle cards, and play tricks with the gamester of thirty.
1894 J. N. Maskelyne ‘Sharps & Flats’ 139 The cards are.. in their original positions, although they appear to have been perfectly shuffled.
b. absol. or intransitive, frequently allusively, esp. in shuffle and cut.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > play a card [verb (transitive)] > actions or tactics > deal, shuffle, or cut
cutc1555
deal1560
rob1575
shuffle1589
fuzz1753
pass1859
flitter1864
split1866
ruffle1872
make1876
trey1888
1589 Pappe w. Hatchet C iiij (1844) 27 Weele make you deale, shuffle as well as you can we meane to cut it.
a1593 C. Marlowe Massacre at Paris (c1600) sig. A6 Since thou hast all the Cardes, Within thy hands to shuffle or cut, take this as surest thing: That..thou deale thy selfe a King.
1607 T. Heywood Woman Kilde with Kindnesse sig. E Shuffle, Ile cut, would I had neuer dealt.
1680 C. Cotton Compl. Gamester (ed. 2) 58 The Dealer shuffles, and the other cuts.
1694 W. Congreve Double-dealer ii. i. 18 Since we have Shuffled and Cutt, let's e'en turn up Trump now.
1707 E. Ward Wooden World Dissected 93 He..shuffles and cuts with every one that has to do with him.
1748 H. Walpole Let. to H. Mann 26 Dec. A little astonished at seeing the Count shuffle with the faces of the cards upwards.
1810 G. Crabbe Borough x. 137 They draw, they sit, they shuffle, cut and deal.
1862 ‘Cavendish’ Princ. Whist (1879) 6 The dealer has always the right to shuffle last.
1864 C. Knight Passages Working Life I. iii. 167 The princes..at the faro-table of Vienna shuffled and cut for the destinies of the world.
c. transitive. To produce or put in (a card or a certain succession of cards) in shuffling. Chiefly figurative.
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the mind > will > intention > planning > plotting > plot (a purpose) or hatch (a plot [verb (transitive)] > bring or get by intrigue
shuffle1583
intrigue1672
wangle1888
swing1934
society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > play a card [verb (transitive)] > actions or tactics > deal, shuffle, or cut > produce or put in by shuffling
shuffle1583
1583 B. Melbancke Philotimus (new ed.) sig. Fij v The fault..was..in her mother, which in shuffling the cards shufled in a knaue too many.
1594 1st Pt. Raigne Selimus sig. F4v Vnlesse I shuffle out my selfe a king.
1648 Hunting of Fox 40 Your creatures were shuffled among all the knaves in the packe.
1654 R. Whitlock Ζωοτομία 425 Shuffling and cutting ones selfe a Fortune in this scambling World.
1914 N.E.D. at Shuffle Mod. I will try and shuffle myself a good hand this time.
3. To push along, about, or together in a disorderly mass or heap, or in a manner suggesting the shuffling of feet.
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the world > movement > impelling or driving > pushing and pulling > push and pull [verb (transitive)] > push > in a disorderly manner
poach1528
shuffle1567
huddle1655
1567 T. Harman Caueat for Commen Cursetors (new ed.) sig. Fiiiiv She shuffels vp a quantity of strawe..in to some prety corner of the barne where she maye conueniently lye.
1577 R. Holinshed Chron. II. 1706/2 They.. strewed agayne ye rushes yt were shuffled wt strugling.
1616 T. Gainsford Rich Cabinet sig. A a 2 To beginne another discourse when a man is telling a story..is as if you should shuffle stones against him which goeth [= walks].
1695 J. Woodward Ess. Nat. Hist. Earth 254 The Sea, by this Access and Recess, shuffling the empty Shells.
1725 P. Blair Pharmaco-botanologia iii. 133 They Wash Cloaths, shufling, shifting of it.
1875 J. Southward Dict. Typogr. (ed. 2) 63 He then lets the further side rest upon the table, and shuffles the sheets gradually away from him.
4.
a. To put or throw together in one mass indiscriminately, incongruously, or without order; to huddle or jumble together.
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the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > gather together [verb (transitive)] > hastily or haphazardly
ruffle1533
shuffle1570
scamble1577
scramble1822
scuffle1946
1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Li/1 To Shuffil, confundere.
1609 P. Holland tr. Ammianus Marcellinus Rom. Hist. 32 t The enemies rankes were broken, and for feare so shufled together, that [etc.].
1629 H. Burton Babel No Bethel 1 Comparing my arguments to scroles shufled together in a lottery pott.
1662 J. Davies tr. A. Olearius Voy. & Trav. J. Albert de Mandelslo 268 in Voy. & Trav. Ambassadors They..eat upon the ground, sometimes shuffling flesh, and fish, and fruits together all into the same dish.
1692 R. South 12 Serm. I. 377 When Lots are shuffled together in a Lap, Urn, or Pitcher.
1807 J. Beresford Miseries Human Life II. xx. 254 Your shoes shuffled by a rascally servant into the general heap.
1883 H. W. V. Stuart Egypt 66 The..granite blocks are..mingled together and piled on one another..as if shuffled by some giant.
1899 J. G. Frazer Orig. Totemism ii The various clans..do not live isolated from each other, but are shuffled up together within a narrow area.
b. With immaterial object.
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1634 T. Heywood & R. Brome Late Lancashire Witches iii. sig. F2v Was there ever such a medley of mirth, madnesse, and drunkennesse, shuffled together?
1647 A. Cowley Distance in Mistress iv Hearts by Love, strangely shuffled are, That there can never meet a Pare!
1687 F. Atterbury Answer Considerations Spirit Luther 22 He has shuffled the two ends of the sentence together.
1699 R. Bentley Diss. Epist. Phalaris (new ed.) 272 Eusebius's Histories are so shuffled and interpolated, and so disjointed from his Tables.
1823 C. Lamb Rejoicings New Year in Elia 2nd Ser. Good Days, bad Days so shuffled together.
1830 T. B. Macaulay Misc. Writings (1860) II. 20 Let us now shuffle the censuses of England and France together.
c. To mingle or join indiscriminately with or among others.
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the world > relative properties > relationship > variety > make varied or diversify [verb (transitive)] > mix or jumble
jumperc1374
jumble1542
hotchpotch1573
shuffle1593
pell-mell1606
chequerc1632
hash1654
hodge-podge1773
check1790
gallimaufry1831
commix1847
1593 T. Kyd Let. Sir J. Puckering in Wks. (1901) p. cviii Some fragments of a disputation..affirmd by Marlowe to be his, and shufled wth some of myne.
1648 T. Winyard Midsummer-moone 2 Shuffle him with the rest oth' visitors.
1662 J. Davies tr. A. Olearius Voy. Ambassadors (1669) 282 With so little observance or order, that..the servants were shuffled in among their Masters.
1713 J. Addison in Guardian 15 July 1/2 I..should not have minded them had they been still shuffled among the Croud.
1744 E. Young Complaint: Night the Seventh 35 The Pang of seeing Worth..Soon, shuffled in the Dark With ev'ry Vice.
5. † b. To remove, put aside or away in a hurried, secret, or underhand manner. Obsolete.† e. to shuffle up: to manage in secret; to hush up. Obsolete.
a. To bring in in a deceitful, tricky, or surreptitious manner; to smuggle (a thing) in or into (something else); to thrust in somehow or other.
ΘΚΠ
the world > existence and causation > existence > intrinsicality or inherence > introduction or bringing in > introduce or bring something in [verb (transitive)] > intrude or insinuate
intruse?a1500
ingyre1513
shuffle1565
cog1570
foist1570
wind?1570
obtrudea1575
interject1588
filch?1589
intrude1592
inthrust1605
possess1606
suborna1620
inedge1632
interlopea1641
subintroducteda1641
subintroduce1643
to hedge in1664
insinuate1665
dodge1687
lug1721
assinuate1742
wriggle1766
fudge1776
intertrude1809
injeer1820
protrude1840
sniggle1881
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > treat fraudulently, cheat [verb (transitive)] > introduce fraudulently
shuffle1565
cog1570
foista1640
foba1652
to trump up1695
1565 J. Jewel Replie Hardinges Answeare iv. 269 Quite alteringe the woordes that he founde, & shufflinge in, and interlacinge other woordes of his owne.
1593 Tell-Trothes New-yeares Gift (1876) 10 The wicked..labour..to shuffle in suspition amongst those that are free from thought thereof.
1610 J. Robinson Justif. Separation from Church of Eng. 490 A bundle of corn shuffled into a field of weeds..cannot make the field a corn-field.
1622 H. Peacham Compl. Gentleman xiii. 150 Coates [of arms] sometimes are by stealth purchased, shuffled into Records and Monuments, by Painters.
1736 I. Watts Logick (ed. 6) iii. iv. §3 Nor..cheat your Understanding by changing the Question, or shuffling in anything else in its Room.
1759 W. Robertson Hist. Scotl. II. 35 He acknowledged that he had shuffled in this letter among other papers which he laid before the king to be signed.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > place > removal or displacement > remove or displace [verb (transitive)] > remove or take away > remove surreptitiously
shufflea1616
foist1658
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > secrecy, concealment > stealthy action, stealth > accomplish clandestinely [verb (transitive)] > remove
shufflea1616
snake1862
a1616 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor (1623) iv. vi. 28 Her Mother..hath appointed That he shall likewise shuffle her away. View more context for this quotation
1646 R. Baillie Anabaptism Ep. sig. *4 Then was it good time for them to come in play, and..to shuffle all others, who had managed the Game whilst it was hazardous.
1649 A. Ascham Bounds Publique Obed. 40 We know..how Joseph was shuffled away by his owne friends and kindred.
1666 in 10th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1885) App. v. 18 A maid servant, who..was on a sudden shuffled out of the said house.
1735 H. Fielding Universal Gallant ii. 17 It seems, he is not proper Company for me, or you would not have shuffled him away yesterday.
c. To bring, put, or thrust into or out of a position or condition in a haphazard, underhand, or shirking manner, or by rough-and-ready means.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > place > placing or fact of being placed in (a) position > place or put in a position [verb (transitive)] > surreptitiously or improperly
shovec1374
shuffle1628
the world > space > place > placing or fact of being placed in (a) position > insertion or putting in > insert or put in [verb (transitive)] > carelessly or hastily
shuffle1628
shove1807
1628 J. Shirley Wittie Faire One v. i A spruce Captain, newly crept out of a Gentleman Vsher, and shufled into a Buffe Iurkin with gold Lace.
1654 J. Bramhall Just Vindic. Church of Eng. v. 95 By Slight of hand..to shuffle this Canon out of the Acts of the Councel.
a1680 Lady Fanshawe in Lady Halkett & Lady Fanshawe Mem. (1979) 179 Thus was he shuffled into your father's imployment.
1692 R. Bentley Boyle Lect. v. 4 That all the Bodies of the first Animals and Plants were shuffled into their several Forms..fortuitously.
1810 W. Wilson Hist. Dissenting Churches III. 83 Nothing can shuffle out the covenant of grace, but a secret conversing with a covenant of works.
1826 W. Scott Jrnl. 27 Oct. (1939) 256 Calais..might..have been shuffled out of our hands during the Civil wars.
1844 A. W. Kinglake Eothen viii. 125 She shuffled away the subject of poor, dear Somersetshire, and bounded onward into loftier spheres of thought.
1860 R. C. Trench Serm. xxi. 247 He that shuns and shirks the task of his life, shuffles it from him.
c1860 M. Arnold Democracy in Mixed Ess. (1879) 43 To treat them as if they had been shuffled into their places by a lucky accident.
d. to shuffle off: to get rid of or evade (something difficult, arduous, or irksome) in a perfunctory or unsatisfactory manner; to dispose of evasively; to shirk (a duty or obligation).In modern use frequently in echoes of Shakespeare Hamlet iii. i. 67.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > place > removal or displacement > remove or displace [verb (transitive)] > get or be rid of > specifically a thing > evasively
to shuffle off1604
to fob offa1616
the world > action or operation > inaction > not doing > abstaining or refraining from action > abstain or refrain from (action) [verb (transitive)] > avoid or shun > avoid (duty, work, or exertion)
shoot1543
scuff1595
to shuffle off1604
shirk1785
funk1834
gold-brick1918
dingo1930
squib1934
skate1945
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > evasive deception, shiftiness > evade [verb (transitive)] > put off
pop1530
to put off1569
to fode forth (also occasionally forward, off, on, out)1591
to shift offc1592
foist1598
to fob off1600
fub1600
to shuffle off1604
doffa1616
jig1633
to trump upa1640
whiffle1654
to fool off1664
sham1682
drill1752
to set off1768
to put by1779
jilt1782
palm1822
stall1829
job1872
to give (a person) the go-around1925
the world > action or operation > inaction > not doing > abstaining or refraining from action > abstain or refrain from (action) [verb (transitive)] > avoid or shun > a problem or difficulty > in a perfunctory or unsatisfactory manner
to shuffle off1604
1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet iii. i. 69 When we have shuffled off this mortall coyle. View more context for this quotation
a1616 W. Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1623) iii. iii. 16 And euer oft good turnes, Are shuffel'd off with such vncurrant pay. View more context for this quotation
1642 D. Rogers Naaman 38 Men shuffle them [sc. judgements] off thus.
1653 H. More Antidote against Atheisme i. iv. §4 Though he would shuffle off the trouble of apprehending an Infinite Deity.
1784 J. Reynolds Disc. Royal Acad. (1876) xii. 42 To evade and shuffle off real labour.
1808 Salmagundi 25 Jan. 414 With the full expectation of shuffling off the remnant of existence, after the excellent fashion of that merry grecian, who died laughing.
1861 W. M. Thackeray Four Georges ii. 75 [They] are obliged for propriety's sake to shuffle off the anxious inquiries of the public.
1863 E. Bulwer-Lytton Caxtoniana II. xxii. 70 In reality he shuffles off duty.
1890 G. Saintsbury Ess. Eng. Lit. 272 A mania which some of his admirers have..endeavoured to shuffle off.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > keeping from knowledge > keep from knowledge [verb (transitive)] > cover up
smother1579
to shuffle up1588
smother1589
smooth1592
smooth1592
slobber1630
to hush up1632
slubber1646
smooth1684
sopite1746
shade1785
smug1857
hugger-mugger1862
to cover up1926
1588 W. Lambarde Eirenarcha (new ed.) iv. xvi. 581 If it be pronounced at the Bench openly..and not shuffled up in a chamber.. secretly.
1605 N. Breton I pray you be not Angrie sig. B2v The matter cleanly shuffled vp, and shee with sorrow rather to confesse it in secret.
1608 A. Willet Hexapla in Exodum 551 The Spanish Inquisition, which is shuffled vp in corners.
6. † c. To make scrambling efforts, scuffle. Obsolete.
a. intransitive and reflexive. To get in, into or out of a position or condition, by some means or other, in an underhand, shifty, or evasive manner.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming in > go or come in [verb (intransitive)] > surreptitiously or subtly
to steal (some one or something) ina1555
shuffle1565
slink1567
to come in at (also by) the window1590
insinuate1600
wimble1605
screw1614
sneak1680
oil1925
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming in > go or come in [verb (reflexive)] > surreptitiously or subtly
wringa1525
shuffle1565
wreathea1571
insinuate1598
conveya1656
the world > space > place > placing or fact of being placed in (a) position > insertion or putting in > insert or put in [verb (transitive)] > indirectly or covertly
shuffle1565
wind?1570
wriggle1599
insinuate1610
slidea1631
slip1688
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > evasive deception, shiftiness > act evasively [verb (intransitive)]
haft1519
shuffle1565
dodge1575
palter1580
shift1580
hedge1611
boggle1615
subterfuge1622
prevaricatea1625
to shuffle up and down1633
evade1660
sophisticate1664
janka1689
whiffle1737
tongue-twist1836
caffle1851
pussyfoot1902
sidestep1904
spruce1916
to fudge and mudge1980
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > go or come out [verb (reflexive)] > in evasive or underhand manner
shuffle1780
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > go or come out of [verb (transitive)] > in evasive or underhand manner
shuffle1851
1565 T. Harding Answere to Iuelles Chalenge 375 b In regard of the Rome they haue shuffled them selues into.
1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 515 Sylla valliantly following on his victory, shuffled in [to the City] among them as they fled.
1780 W. Cowper Let. 4 Mar. (1979) I. 322 We were concerned at your Account of Robert, and have little Doubt but he will shuffle himself out of his Place.
1826 J. L. Motley Let. 29 Apr. in Corr. (1889) I. i. 6 I might enter Sophomore, but..if I should manage to shuffle in, I should always be the worst in my class.
1851 A. Helps Compan. Solitude iv. 54 He would have contrived to shuffle awkwardly out of wealth and dignities.
1887 Westm. Rev. June 281 He shuffles out of the consequences by vague..charges of undue influence.
b. to shuffle †over, through: to perform hurriedly or perfunctorily, get through somehow.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > manner of action > carelessness > be careless or heedless of [verb (transitive)] > perform without accuracy or thoroughness
to toy with ——1563
skima1586
slubber1592
slobber1630
huddle1648
to shuffle over, through1656
slobber1765
slattern1781
scuffle1785
slur1857
perfunctorize1866
smatter1881
1656 R. Baxter Reformed Pastor Pref. b If there should be any found..that will shuffle over the work.
1681 J. Flavell Method of Grace xxiv. 418 Dost thou shuffle over thy duties as an interruption to thy business and pleasures?
1820 W. Irving Sketch Bk. I. 219 The service..was shuffled through..coldly and unfeelingly.
1820 J. W. Croker in Croker Papers 20 Dec. (1884) I If we had but a spokesman or two we should shuffle through the session.
1860 ‘G. Eliot’ Mill on Floss I. ii. iv. 319 Tom was gradually allowed to shuffle through his lessons with less rigour.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > endeavour > make an attempt or endeavour [verb (intransitive)] > make scrambling efforts
shuffle1609
1609 S. Daniel Civile Wares (rev. ed.) viii. xcix. 228 Shuffling for your roomes Of ease or honor.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Cymbeline (1623) v. vi. 105 Your life, good Master, Must shuffle for it selfe. View more context for this quotation
1640 J. Fletcher & J. Shirley Night-walker i. sig. B1v He that shall sit downe frighted with that foolery Is not worth pitty, let me alone to shuffle.
7.
a. To act in a shifting or evasive manner; to shift one's ground in argument, etc.; to make use of deceitful pretences or shifty answers.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > ability > skill or skilfulness > cunning > be cunning or act cunningly [verb (intransitive)] > be evasive
shift1580
shuffle1602
to shuffle up and down1633
stall1903
the mind > mental capacity > understanding > reason, faculty of reasoning > misleading argument, sophistry > excessive subtlety, hair-splitting > frivolous, captious objection > raise captiously [verb (intransitive)]
brabblec1500
cavil1548
shuffle1602
to lie at catch or upon the catch1611
to shuffle up and down1633
chicane1705
1602 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor ii. ii. 25 I..am faine to shuffel, to filch & to lurch.
1652 P. Heylyn Cosmographie iii. sig. Aaa4v So shuffling with the Macedonian and Syrian Kings, that betwixt both they still preserved their own estates.
1668 O. Sansom in Acct. Life (1710) 60 When you should have produced it [a money-account], you shuffled, and shifted it off; pretending a Mistake.
1706 T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. (1885) I. 222 Mr. Milles did not frankly own it, but seem'd to shuffle about it.
1815 Sporting Mag. 46 165 To him they shuffled in the same manner, and gave him the like false description of themselves.
1856 J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. I. 125 He said and unsaid, sighed, sobbed, beat his breast, shuffled, implored, threatened.
b. So to shuffle up and down.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > ability > skill or skilfulness > cunning > be cunning or act cunningly [verb (intransitive)] > be evasive
shift1580
shuffle1602
to shuffle up and down1633
stall1903
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > evasive deception, shiftiness > act evasively [verb (intransitive)]
haft1519
shuffle1565
dodge1575
palter1580
shift1580
hedge1611
boggle1615
subterfuge1622
prevaricatea1625
to shuffle up and down1633
evade1660
sophisticate1664
janka1689
whiffle1737
tongue-twist1836
caffle1851
pussyfoot1902
sidestep1904
spruce1916
to fudge and mudge1980
the mind > mental capacity > understanding > reason, faculty of reasoning > misleading argument, sophistry > excessive subtlety, hair-splitting > frivolous, captious objection > raise captiously [verb (intransitive)]
brabblec1500
cavil1548
shuffle1602
to lie at catch or upon the catch1611
to shuffle up and down1633
chicane1705
1633 W. Ames Fresh Suit against Human Ceremonies ii. 80 Those that are devoted to the Ceremonies may shufle up and downe, first to order, and when they are beaten thence, to Decencie.
1645 J. Howell Epistolæ Ho-elianæ vi. xxix. 43 The Bishop of Halverstadt and Count Mansfelt shuffled up and down a good while.
1871 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues I. 96 He shuffles up and down [στρέϕεται ἄνω καὶ κάτω] in order to conceal the difficulty into which he has got himself.]
a. transitive. To manipulate unfairly. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > misinterpretation > distortion or perversion of meaning > pervert or distort [verb (transitive)]
crooka1340
deprave1382
pervertc1390
strainc1449
drawc1450
miswrest?a1475
bewrya1522
wry?1521
to make a Welshman's hose ofa1529
writhea1533
wrest1533
invert1534
wring?1541
depravate1548
rack1548
violent1549
wrench1549
train1551
wreathe1556
throw1558
detorta1575
shuffle1589
wriggle1593
distortc1595
to put, set, place, etc. on the rack1599
twine1600
wire-draw1610
monstrify1617
screw1628
corrupt1630
gloss1638
torture1648
force1662
vex1678
refract1700
warp1717
to put a force upon1729
twist1821
ply1988
1589 Pappe with Hatchet (1844) 32 With their wresting and shuffling holie Writ.
1593 T. Bilson Perpetual Govt. Christes Church 209 If I shuffle any writers wordes, or dazel the Readers eies.
1641 ‘Smectymnuus’ Vindic. Answer Hvmble Remonstr. To Rdr. sig. A2v This Authour is misalledged... This Councell shuffled up with little fidelitie.
b. to shuffle up: to get or put together hastily or in a perfunctory manner; to patch up. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > existence and causation > creation > [verb (transitive)] > construct > patch together
patcha1529
to shuffle up1532
rash1570
bepiece1578
cobble1589
consarcinate1610
to clap upa1616
clap1649
to knock up1683
patchwork1856
to fadge up1863
to knock together1874
fake1879
the world > action or operation > manner of action > rapidity or speed of action or operation > do, deal with, acquire, etc., quickly [verb (transitive)] > do hurriedly and carelessly > make, compile, or concoct
to shuffle up1532
rash1570
huddle1579
to knock upc1580
to clap upa1616
to run up1686
to knock out1856
to knock off1886
whang1935
1532 T. More Confut. Tyndale in Wks. 357/1 Yet haue I not so slightly sene vnto mine own, nor shoffled it vp so hasteli,..but that [etc.].
1589 T. Nashe Anat. Absurditie sig. Biiiiv Some stitcher..hath shuffled or slubberd vp a few ragged Rimes.
1607 T. Dekker & J. Webster West-ward Hoe ii. i. sig. B4 Like Country Atturnies, wee are to shuffle vp many matters in a for-enoone [sic].
1643 R. Baker Chron. Kings of Eng. ii. 155 To shuffle up a Summary proceeding by examination, without tryall of Jury.
1659 Lady Alimony ii. iii. sig. C2 A mad match soon shuffled up.
1668 J. Beale Let. 12 Oct. in H. Oldenburg Corr. (1968) V. 82 Sr, I have made a hard shift to shuffle up for ye Carrier ye Patterns of our Opticall Aydes. Wee had nothing in readinesse, nor could here get ye spectacle-bones, nor better case, than I have sent yu.
c. To treat (a matter) in an equivocal fashion.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > equivocal quality, ambiguity > render ambiguous [verb (transitive)]
shuffle1637
straddle1878
weasel1900
1637 G. Gillespie Dispute against Eng.-Popish Ceremonies iii. iv. 59 He shuffeleth the point deceitfully.
1726 R. Wodrow Corr. (1843) III. 251 The Moderator shuffled the matter.
9. † b. To put (a person) off (with an excuse, a makeshift). Obsolete.† c. To cheat (a person) out of a thing. Obsolete.
a. In immaterial sense: To put (a thing) off from one to another, or upon a person.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > transference > [verb (transitive)] > specific something immaterial > and onerous
shifta1572
shuffle1612
1612 J. Davies Discouerie Causes Ireland 168 Their possessions..being shuffled, and changed, and remoued so often from one to another.
1641 R. Carpenter Experience, Hist., & Divinitie iv. v. 144 Looke how they shuffle the matter, and give it from one hand to another, amongst themselves.
1692 R. L'Estrange Fables ccxxxiii. 203 If any thing Hits, we take it to our Selves, if it Miscarries, we shuffle it off to our Neighbours.
1727 D. Defoe Compl. Eng. Tradesman (ed. 2) I. ii. 32 The warehouseman shuffles 'em back upon the clothier, to lie for his account.
1875 A. Maclaren Serm. 2nd Ser. vii. 125 Is he trying to shuffle off guilt from his own shoulders?
1879 J. A. Froude Cæsar xiii. 189 Those who most agreed in what he had done, were not ashamed to shuffle off upon him their responsibilities.
1882 I. Mayo Mrs. Raven's Temptation I. 281 I'll shuffle him off upon the governor.
ΚΠ
1659 D. Pell Πελαγος 574 Will any Land-lord bear with his Tennant that shuffels him off from year to year?
1662 J. Davies tr. A. Olearius Voy. Ambassadors (1669) 287 Those whom the king had sent to him would not be shuffled off with that answer.
1690 C. Ness Compl. Hist. & Myst. Old & New Test. I. 77 It cannot consist with a gracious heart to shuffle off the great God with slight services.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > treat fraudulently, cheat [verb (transitive)]
deceivec1330
defraud1362
falsec1374
abuse?a1439
fraud1563
visure1570
cozen1583
coney-catch1592
to fetch in1592
cheat1597
sell1607
mountebanka1616
dabc1616
nigglea1625
to put it on1625
shuffle1627
cuckold1644
to put a cheat on1649
tonya1652
fourbe1654
imposturea1659
impose1662
slur1664
knap1665
to pass upon (also on)1673
snub1694
ferret1699
nab1706
shool1745
humbug1750
gag1777
gudgeon1787
kid1811
bronze1817
honeyfuggle1829
Yankee1837
middle1863
fuck1866
fake1867
skunk1867
dead-beat1888
gold-brick1893
slicker1897
screw1900
to play it1901
to do in1906
game1907
gaff1934
scalp1939
sucker1939
sheg1943
swizz1961
butt-fuck1979
the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > defrauding or swindling > perpetrate (a swindle) [verb (transitive)] > defraud or swindle > out of something
beguile1394
wrongc1484
delude1493
licka1500
to wipe a person's nose1577
uncle1585
cheat1597
cozen1602
to bob of1605
to bob out of1605
gull1612
foola1616
to set in the nick1616
to worm (a person) out of1617
shuffle1627
to baffle out of1652
chouse1654
trepan1662
bubble1668
trick1698
to bamboozle out of1705
fling1749
jockey1772
swindle1780
twiddle1825
to diddle out of1829
nig1829
to chisel out of1848
to beat out1851
nobble1852
duff1863
flim-flam1890
1627 in Lismore Papers (1888) 2nd Ser. III. 150 He would spend his whole estate before he should be shuffled out of his landes.
1660 S. Pepys Diary 4 July (1970) I. 192 I..had great fears..that they will shuffle me out of them [sc. houses].
10. † b. intransitive. To shift about hesitatingly. Obsolete.† c. To pass into a succession of conditions. Obsolete.
a. transitive. To shift from one place to another; to move about this way and that. †shuffle the slipper, the game of hunt-the-slipper.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > place > placing or fact of being placed in (a) position > place or put in a position [verb (transitive)] > in different position
changea1375
movea1382
shifta1400
skifta1400
transpose?1518
shiften1544
transplace1621
trans-situate1630
translocate1650
shuffle1694
mudge1823
relocate1829
translaya1861
to change around1871
society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > parlour and party games > [noun] > hunt the slipper, etc.
hunt the whistle1757
hunt the slipper1766
shuffle the slipper1766
1694 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 18 92 Several Houses now standing were shuffled and moved some Yards from their places.
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis xi, in tr. Virgil Wks. 573 Apollo..granting half his Pray'r, Shuffled in Winds the rest, and toss'd in empty Air.
1766 H. Brooke Fool of Quality I. iii. 72 Our hero was beaten..at draw-glove and shuffle the slipper.
1781 W. Cowper Truth 320 Yon cottager, who weaves at her own door..Shuffling her threads about the live-long day.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > bodily movement > move the body or a member [verb (intransitive)] > shift about uneasily or awkwardly
fikec1220
trifle1618
shuffle1635
fidget1753
hawm1847
1635 J. Howell Let. 28 Nov. in Earl of Strafford Lett. (1739) I. 488 The French shuffle yet well enough upon the Frontiers of Germany and Lorrain.
1697 W. Dampier New Voy. around World iv. 79 The wind would shuffle about to the Southward again, and fall flat calm.
ΘΚΠ
the world > time > change > change to something else, transformation > gradual change > change gradually [verb (intransitive)] > from or into
slidea1398
growc1460
wear1555
accrue1586
ripen1611
shuffle1635
melt1651
steal1660
spawn1677
verge1757
to glide into1800
shade1819
evolve?1831
shadow1839
grade1892
1635 J. Shirley Traytor ii. D 4 b The Elements Shuffle into innumerable changes.
11.
a. To put (a thing) into a receptacle, put or take (a thing) on, off, etc. in a clumsy or fumbling manner.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > place > placing or fact of being placed in (a) position > insertion or putting in > insert or put in [verb (transitive)] > carelessly or hastily > clumsily
shuffle1694
the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > providing with clothing > undressing or removing clothing > undress or remove clothing [verb (transitive)] > take off clothing
to do offeOE
to lay downc1275
to weve offc1290
stripc1320
doffa1375
loose1382
ofdrawa1393
casta1400
to take offa1400
warpa1400
to cast offc1400
to catch offc1400
waivec1400
voidc1407
to put off?a1425
to wap offc1440
to lay from, offc1480
despoil1483
to pull offc1500
slip1535
devest1566
to shift off1567
daff1609
discuss1640
to lay off1699
strip1762
douse1780
shuffle1837
derobe1841
shed1858
skin1861
peel1888
pull1888
the world > space > relative position > low position > put in low position [verb (transitive)] > place under > in a clumsy manner
shuffle1839
the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > providing with clothing > provide with clothing [verb (transitive)] > put on > in clumsy or fumbling manner
shuffle1865
to warsle on1887
1694 tr. F. Martens Voy. Spitzbergen 161 in Narbrough's Acct. Several Late Voy. By it stands a Boy that shuffles the Fat by degrees into a Bag.
1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. III. vi. ii. 359 His shoulders shuffle the loose coat off them.
1839 G. P. R. James Louis XIV II. 62 The secretary shuffled the papers hastily under the table cover.
1847 B. Disraeli Tancred II. iii. ii. 16 He shuffled off his slippers at the threshold.
1865 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend II. iii. iii. 23 When he has shuffled his clothes on.
1869 A. Trollope He knew he was Right II. lvii. 62 She could only shuffle her letter back into her pocket.
b. intransitive. To get into an article of clothing in a clumsy or fumbling manner.
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the world > action or operation > ability > inability > unskilfulness > do something unskilfully [verb (intransitive)] > act clumsily > put on clothing clumsily
shuffle1865
1865 C. Kingsley Hereward xlii, in Good Words Dec. 863/1 Ailward shuffled into his harness.
1883 H. W. V. Stuart Egypt 112 The inhabitants..shuffled into their slippers.
c. To fumble. rare.
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the world > physical sensation > touch and feeling > touching > touching with the hand > touch or feel with the hand [verb (intransitive)] > touch or handle awkwardly
fumble1534
shuffle1812
1812 Examiner 30 Nov. 767/2 Collingbourn observed the prisoner busily shuffling about his pockets.
Compounds
shuffle beat n. = shuffle rhythm n.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > duration of notes > proportion of notes or rhythm > [noun] > action of putting into rhythm > types of rhythm
swing1829
sprung rhythm1877
dance-rhythm1880
ragtime1896
slow drag1901
rumba1912
polymetre1922
cross-rhythm1926
tangana1926
counter-rhythm1927
ride1935
walking beat1935
ricky-tick1937
rock1937
shuffle rhythm1940
isorhythm1954
shuffle beat1955
tango rhythm1966
makossa1973
1955 N. Shapiro & N. Hentoff Hear me talkin' to Ya 21 They played the shuffle beat on the snare drum.
1977 National Observer (U.S.) 22 Jan. 22/4 A lot of it's the old southern shuffle beat. Music you could get up and dance to.
shuffle-breeches n. (meaning obscure).
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1822 W. Cobbett Cottage Econ. (1823) §107 The old shuffle~breeches band of the Quarterly Review.
shuffle-cap n. ‘a play at which money is shaken in a hat’ (Johnson).
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > games of chance > other games of chance > [noun]
even or odd1538
love1585
Jack-in-the-box?1593
under-hat1629
pluck-penny1643
morra1659
catch-dolt1674
shuffle-cap1712
fair chance1723
E O1751
teetotum1753
rondo1821
cut-throat1823
hop-my-fool1824
odds and evens1841
spin-'em-round1851
halfpenny under the hat1853
racehorses1853
fan-tan1878
tan1883
pakapoo1886
legality1888
petits chevaux1891
pai gow1906
boule1911
put and take1921
1712 J. Arbuthnot John Bull in his Senses iii. 9 He lost his Money at Chuck-Farthing, Shuffle-Cap, and All-Fours.
1760 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy I. x. 38 Even chuck-farthing and shuffle-cap themselves stood gaping till he [the village parson] had got out of sight.
shuffle rhythm n. a slow strongly syncopated rhythm (see quot. 1940).
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > duration of notes > proportion of notes or rhythm > [noun] > action of putting into rhythm > types of rhythm
swing1829
sprung rhythm1877
dance-rhythm1880
ragtime1896
slow drag1901
rumba1912
polymetre1922
cross-rhythm1926
tangana1926
counter-rhythm1927
ride1935
walking beat1935
ricky-tick1937
rock1937
shuffle rhythm1940
isorhythm1954
shuffle beat1955
tango rhythm1966
makossa1973
1940 Swing June 13/3 The typifying characteristic of the Savitt band is its ‘shuffle rhythm’, which is distinguished..by its..4/4 jazz time.
1967 Boston Sunday Herald 30 Apr. 14/4 From shuffle rhythm to rock he waxed them all.
shuffle-wing n. the hedge sparrow, Prunella modularis.
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the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > non-arboreal (larks, etc.) > [noun] > family Prunellidae (accentor) > prunella modularis (hedge-sparrow)
haysuggec1000
pinnockc1275
suggec1440
dunnock1483
Philipa1500
hedge sparrow1530
titlingc1550
dikesmowler1611
hedge-chat1821
hedge-accentora1825
shuffle-wing1829
chanter1831
Isaac1834
dicky1877
smoky1889
1829 J. L. Knapp Jrnl. Naturalist 151 The hedge sparrow, or shufflewing.
1909 W. H. Hudson Afoot in Eng. xxiv. 289 I also love the smaller vocalists—the modest shuffle~wing and the lesser whitethroat.
1977 Sunday Tel. 6 Feb. 15/7 This is a day on which to..watch truly aggressive chaffinches competing with shufflewings.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online September 2021).
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