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shuffle
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)
- The act of shuffling cards.
- The act of reordering anything, such as music tracks in a media player.
- An instance of walking without lifting one's feet.
- (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.
- (dance) A dance move in which the foot is scuffed across the floor back and forth.
- 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)
- (transitive, intransitive) To put in a random order.
- To change; modify the order of something.
- (transitive, intransitive) To move in a slovenly, dragging manner; to drag or scrape the feet in walking or dancing.
- To change one's position; to shift ground; to evade questions; to resort to equivocation; to prevaricate.
- To use arts or expedients; to make shift.
- To shove one way and the other; to push from one to another.
- 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)
- to shuffle (including dancing the shuffle, playing shuffleboard)
References
- “shuffle_2” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
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hurry
English
Etymology
From Middle English horien (“to rush, impel”), probably a variation of hurren (“to vibrate rapidly, buzz”), from Proto-Germanic *hurzan? (“to rush”) (compare Middle High German hurren (“to hasten”), Norwegian hurre (“to whirl around”)), from Proto-Indo-European *?ers- (“to run”) (compare Latin curr? (“I run”), Tocharian A kursär/Tocharian B kwärsar (“league; course”)). Related to hurr, horse, rush.
Alternative etymology derives hurry as a variant of harry, which see.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?h??.i/
- (US) IPA(key): /?h??.i/ (accents without the "Hurry-furry" merger)
- (US) IPA(key): [?h?.i] (accents with the "Hurry-furry" merger)
- Rhymes: -?ri
Noun
hurry (countable and uncountable, plural hurries)
- Rushed action.
- Urgency.
- (American football) an incidence of a defensive player forcing the quarterback to act faster than the quarterback was prepared to, resulting in a failed offensive play.
- (music) A tremolando passage for violins, etc., accompanying an exciting situation.
Derived terms
- in a hurry
Translations
Verb
hurry (third-person singular simple present hurries, present participle hurrying, simple past and past participle hurried)
- (intransitive) To do things quickly.
- (intransitive) Often with up, to speed up the rate of doing something.
- (transitive) To cause to be done quickly.
- (transitive) To hasten; to impel to greater speed; to urge on.
- the rapid Stream presently draws him in , carries him away , and hurries him down violently.
- (transitive) To impel to precipitate or thoughtless action; to urge to confused or irregular activity.
- (mining) To put: to convey coal in the mine, e.g. from the working to the tramway.
- 1842, The Condition and Treatment of the Children Employed in the Mines, page 45:
- Elizabeth Day, aged seventeen […] "I have been nearly nine years in the pit. I trapped for two years when I first went, and have hurried ever since. I have hurried for my father until a year ago. I have to help to riddle and fill, […]
- 1842, The Condition and Treatment of the Children Employed in the Mines, page 45:
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:rush
Translations
See also
- haste
- hurry up
- di di mau
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