shuffle

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   to walk dragging the feet, or to rearrange a set such as cards

   He shuffled the deck and dealt a hand to each player.

Simplified etymology

Shuffle either came directly from Low German schuffeln, meaning to walk clumsily or with dragging feet, mix, shuffle cards, deal dishonestly, or play unfairly, or developed independently from the same Germanic root. Its various senses were already present in 16th-century English, and it is related to shove and scuffle. The political noun for a change of government ministers dates from the mid-20th century.

First attested in the 16th century, probably of Low German origin, akin to Low German schuffeln ('to walk clumsily, shove'), a frequentative related to shove.

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