Shuffle

Originally the same word as scuffle, and properly a frequentative of shove.

Full definition of shuffle

(plural shuffles)

The act of shuffling cards.He made a real mess of the last shuffle.
An instance of walking without lifting one's feet.''The sad young girl left with a tired shuffle.
(by extension, music) A rhythm commonly used in blues music. Consists of a series of triplet notes with the middle note missing, so that it sounds like a long note followed by a short note. Sounds like a walker dragging one foot.
A trick; an artifice; an evasion.The gifts of nature are beyond all shame and shuffles. — L'Estrange.

To put in a random order.Don't forget to shuffle the cards.You shuffle, I'll deal.The data packets are shuffled before transmission.I'm going to shuffle all the songs in my playlist.
To move in a slovenly, dragging manner; to drag or scrape the feet in walking or dancing.He shuffled out of the room.I shuffled my feet in embarrassment.

KeatsThe aged creature came
Shuffling along with ivory-headed wand.
1954, Alexander Alderson, The Subtle Minotaur Chapter 4, The band played ceaselessly. Even when the other instruments were resting the pianist kept up his monotonous vamping, with a dreary furbelow for embellishment here and there, to which some few of the dancers continued to shuffle round the floor.

2010, December 28, Marc Vesty, Stoke 0 - 2 Fulham, 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.

To change one's position; to shift ground; to evade questions; to resort to equivocation; to prevaricate.

ShakespeareI myself, ... hiding mine honour in my necessity, am fain to shuffle.

To shove one way and the other; to push from one to another.to shuffle money from hand to hand
To remove or introduce by artificial confusion.

DrydenIt was contrived by your enemies, and shuffled into the papers that were seiz'd.