shuf·fle /ˈʃʌfəl/
拖著腳走,曳步,混亂,矇混,洗紙牌(vt.)(vi.)拖曳,攪亂,慢吞吞地走,推諉,洗牌
shuffle
正移; 混洗
shuffle
混洗
Shuf·fle, v. i.
1. To change the relative position of cards in a pack; as, to shuffle and cut.
2. To change one's position; to shift ground; to evade questions; to resort to equivocation; to prevaricate.
I myself, . . . hiding mine honor in my necessity, am fain to shuffle. --Shak.
3. To use arts or expedients; to make shift.
Your life, good master,
Must shuffle for itself. --Shak.
4. To move in a slovenly, dragging manner; to drag or scrape the feet in walking or dancing.
The aged creature came
Shuffling along with ivory-headed wand. --Keats.
Syn: -- To equivicate; prevaricate; quibble; cavil; shift; sophisticate; juggle.
Shuf·fle v. t. [imp. & p. p. Shuffled p. pr. & vb. n. Shuffling ]
1. To shove one way and the other; to push from one to another; as, to shuffle money from hand to hand.
2. 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.
A man may shuffle cards or rattle dice from noon to midnight without tracing a new idea in his mind. --Rombler.
3. To remove or introduce by artificial confusion.
It was contrived by your enemies, and shuffled into the papers that were seizen. --Dryden.
To shuffe off, to push off; to rid one's self of.
To shuffe up, to throw together in hastel to make up or form in confusion or with fraudulent disorder; as, he shuffled up a peace.
Shuf·fle, n.
1. The act of shuffling; a mixing confusedly; a slovenly, dragging motion.
The unguided agitation and rude shuffles of matter. --Bentley.
2. A trick; an artifice; an evasion.
The gifts of nature are beyond all shame and shuffles. --L'Estrange.
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shuffle
n 1: the act of mixing cards haphazardly [syn: shuffling, make]
2: walking with a slow dragging motion without lifting your
feet; "from his shambling I assumed he was very old" [syn:
shamble, shambling, shuffling]
v 1: walk by dragging one's feet; "he shuffled out of the room";
"We heard his feet shuffling down the hall" [syn: scuffle,
shamble]
2: move about, move back and forth; "He shuffled his funds
among different accounts in various countries so as to
avoid the IRS"
3: mix so as to make a random order or arrangement; "shuffle
the cards" [syn: ruffle, mix]