shuffle
verb
[ ˈʃʌf(ə)l ]
• walk by dragging one's feet along or without lifting them fully from the ground.
• "I stepped into my skis and shuffled to the edge of the steep slope"
Similar:
shamble,
drag one's feet,
stumble,
lumber,
stagger,
teeter,
totter,
dodder,
reel,
lurch,
hobble,
limp,
sprauchle,
• rearrange (a pack of cards) by sliding them over each other quickly.
• "he shuffled the cards and cut the deck"
• behave in a shifty or evasive manner.
• "Mr Milles did not frankly own it, but seem'd to shuffle about it"
shuffle
noun
• a shuffling movement, walk, or sound.
• "there was a shuffle of approaching feet"
• an act of shuffling a pack of cards.
• "the discard is removed from the deck until the next shuffle"
• a piece of equivocation or subterfuge.
Origin:
mid 16th century: perhaps from Low German schuffeln ‘walk clumsily’, also ‘deal dishonestly, shuffle (cards)’, of Germanic origin; related to shove and scuffle.
