shuffleth

Verb

shuffle (third-person singular simple present shuffles, present participle shuffling, simple past and past participle shuffled)

1. (ambitransitive) To put in a random order.
   • Don't forget to shuffle the cards.
2. To change; modify the order of something.
   • But, rather than make a change up front, Hughes shuffled his defence for this match, replacing Carlos Salcido with Baird, in a move which few would have predicted would prove decisive.2010 December 28, Marc Vesty, “Stoke 0 – 2 Fulham”, in BBC Sport
3. (ambitransitive) To move in a slovenly, dragging manner; to drag or scrape the feet in walking or dancing.
   • He shuffled out of the room.
4. To change one's position; to shift ground; to evade questions; to resort to equivocation; to prevaricate.
   • I myself, […] hiding mine honour in my necessity, am fain to shuffle.c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...

   Synonyms:

   shamble, scuff

5. To use arts or expedients; to make shift.
   • Your life, good master, / Must shuffle for itself.1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard...
6. To shove one way and the other; to push from one to another.
   • to shuffle money from hand to hand

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