different between creep vs shuffle

English

Etymology

From Middle English crepen, from Old English cr?opan (“to creep, crawl”), from Proto-West Germanic *kreupan, from Proto-Germanic *kreupan? (“to twist, creep”), from Proto-Indo-European *gerb- (“to turn, wind”). Cognate with West Frisian krippe, krûpe, West Frisian crjippa (“to creep”), Low German krepen and krupen, Dutch kruipen (“to creep, crawl”), Middle High German kriefen (“to creep”), Danish krybe (“to creep”), Norwegian krype (“to creep”), Swedish krypa (“to creep, crawl”), Icelandic krjúpa (“to stoop”).

The noun is derived from the verb.

Pronunciation

• enPR: kr?p, IPA^(key): /k?i?p/, [k??i?p]
• Rhymes: -i?p

Verb

creep (third-person singular simple present creeps, present participle creeping, simple past crept or creeped or (obsolete) crope, past participle crept or creeped or (archaic) cropen)

1. (intransitive) To move slowly with the abdomen close to the ground.

   Synonym: crawl

2. (intransitive) Of plants, to grow across a surface rather than upwards.
3. (intransitive) To move slowly and quietly in a particular direction.
4. (intransitive) To make small gradual changes, usually in a particular direction.

5. To move in a stealthy or secret manner; to move imperceptibly or clandestinely; to steal in; to insinuate itself or oneself.
6. To slip, or to become slightly displaced.

7. To move or behave with servility or exaggerated humility; to fawn.
8. To have a sensation as of insects creeping on the skin of the body; to crawl.

9. To drag in deep water with creepers, as for recovering a submarine cable.
10. (intransitive, African-American Vernacular, slang) To covertly have sex (with a person other than one's primary partner); to cheat with.

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

creep (countable and uncountable, plural creeps)

1. The movement of something that creeps (like worms or snails)
2. A relatively small gradual change, variation or deviation (from a planned value) in a measure.
3. A slight displacement of an object: the slight movement of something
4. (uncountable) The gradual expansion or proliferation of something beyond its original goals or boundaries, considered negatively.

5. (publishing) In sewn books, the tendency of pages on the inside of a quire to stand out farther than those on the outside of it.
6. (materials science) An increase in strain with time; the gradual flow or deformation of a material under stress.
7. (geology) The imperceptible downslope movement of surface rock.
8. (informal, derogatory) Someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric.

   Synonym: weirdo
9. (informal, derogatory) A frightening and/or disconcerting person, especially one who gives the speaker chills.

10. (agriculture) A barrier with small openings used to keep large animals out while allowing smaller animals to pass through.

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

• Perce, Percé, crepe, crêpe, perce

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???f?l/
• Rhymes: -?f?l

Noun

shuffle (plural shuffles)

1. The act of shuffling cards.

2. The act of reordering anything, such as music tracks in a media player.
3. An instance of walking without lifting one's feet.

4. (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.
5. (dance) A dance move in which the foot is scuffed across the floor back and forth.
6. A trick; an artifice; an evasion.

Quotations

• 1995, Mel Kernahan, White savages in the South Seas, Verso, page 113:

  As I lay there listening to the strange night sounds, I hear the shuffle of someone creeping by outside in the grass.

• 2003, Edmund G. Bansak & Robert Wise, Fearing the Dark: The Val Lewton Career, McFarland, page 394:

  She has a crippled leg, and every time she walks we hear the shuffle of her crinoline skirt and the thumping of her cane.

• 2008, Markus Zusak, The Book Thief, Pan Macmillan Australia, page 148:

  Around her, she could hear the shuffle of her own hands, disturbing the shelves.

Derived terms

• lost in the shuffle

Translations

Verb

shuffle (third-person singular simple present shuffles, present participle shuffling, simple past and past participle shuffled)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To put in a random order.

2. To change; modify the order of something.
3. (transitive, intransitive) To move in a slovenly, dragging manner; to drag or scrape the feet in walking or dancing.
4. To change one's position; to shift ground; to evade questions; to resort to equivocation; to prevaricate.
5. To use arts or expedients; to make shift.
6. To shove one way and the other; to push from one to another.

7. To remove or introduce by artificial confusion.

Synonyms

• (walk without picking up one's feet): shamble

Derived terms

Translations

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From English shuffle.

Verb

shuffle (present tense shuffler, simple past and past participle shufflet)

1. to shuffle (including dancing the shuffle, playing shuffleboard)

References

• “shuffle_2” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).