shuffle

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
shuffle /ˈʃʌf(ə)l/

▶verb

• 1 walk by dragging one's feet along or without lifting them fully from the ground.

  ■ restlessly shift one's position.

  ■ (shuffle something off/shuffle out of something) get out of or avoid a responsibility or obligation.

• 2 rearrange (a pack of cards) by sliding them over each other quickly.

  ■ (shuffle through) sort or look through (a number of things) hurriedly.

• 3 move (people or things) around into different positions or a different order.

▶noun

• 1 a shuffling movement, walk, or sound.

  ■ a quick dragging or scraping movement of the feet in dancing.

  ■ a dance performed with such steps.

• 2 an act of shuffling a pack of cards.

• 3 a change of order or relative positions; a reshuffle.

• 4 a facility on a CD player for playing tracks in an arbitrary order.

• 5 archaic a piece of equivocation or subterfuge.

– derivatives
shuffler noun.

– origin C16: perh. from Low Ger. schuffeln ‘walk clumsily’, also ‘deal dishonestly, shuffle (cards)’, of Gmc origin; rel. to shove and scuffle.