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Definition of shuffle:
- A trick; an artifice; an evasion.
- The act of shuffling; a mixing confusedly; a slovenly, dragging motion.
- To change one's position; to shift ground; to evade questions; to resort to equivocation; to prevaricate.
- To change the relative position of cards in a pack; as, to shuffle and cut.
- 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 move in a slovenly, dragging manner; to drag or scrape the feet in walking or dancing.
- To remove or introduce by artificial confusion.
- To shove one way and the other; to push from one to another; as, to shuffle money from hand to hand.
- To use arts or expedients; to make shift.
Synonyms:
rumple, unify, amalgamate, flux, conflate, fluff, waffle, fuse, commingle, weasel word, ruffle up, stagger, commix, prance, cock, hobble, cockle, scuff, euphemize, fumble, jumble, equivoque, pleat, swagger, flounder, immix, clear, stumble, scuffle, desegregate, ambiguity, prevaricate, shuffling, euphemism, pussyfoot, limp, mix in, tergiversation, merge, muddle, change, mix, hedge, shambling, move, flick, equivocation, strut, coalesce, thrive, undulate, tussle, walk, riffle, mix-up, sashay, order, true, scrape, ruffle, blend, tittup, meld, weasel, make, bumble, shamble, bungle, blunder, brand, equivocate, palter, mingle, tergiversate, ripple, integrate, prevarication, fudge, scramble, mess up, rearrange, combine.
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dance (part of speech: noun)
- galliard,
- clog,
- courante,
- cotillion,
- square dance,
- marengue,
- rumba,
- conga,
- hornpipe,
- gavotte,
- hula,
- shimmy,
- waltz,
- tango,
- polonaise,
- fandango,
- jitterbug,
- Charleston,
- tarantella,
- one-step,
- Highland fling,
- polka,
- cakewalk,
- quadrille,
- mambo,
- jig,
- dance,
- beguine,
- bolero,
- lambada,
- cha-cha,
- allemande,
- turkey trot,
- can-can,
- twist,
- samba,
- reel,
- moonwalk,
- hootchy-kootchy,
- minuet,
- two-step,
- fox trot,
- tap dance,
- allemande,
- mazurka
Usage examples:
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And forthwith, as one who may not be resisted, he swept up the cards and began to shuffle.
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Cases and cases my poor Alfred read to me, where an ill- behaving man was brought to his senses by a clever little shuffle of the cards, and by the most innocent of wives.
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The shuffle of feet drew nearer and presently a beam of light shone out from under the door.