Dictionary entry

Shuffle (2)

Webster's Dictionary 1913

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.