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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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lunge
English
Alternative forms
- longe (US)
Etymology
From French allonge, from Old French alonge, from alongier, from Vulgar Latin *allongare, from ad + Late Latin longare, from Latin longus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /l?nd?/
- Rhymes: -?nd?
Noun
lunge (plural lunges)
- A sudden forward movement, especially with a sword.
- A long rope or flat web line, more commonly referred to as a lunge line, approximately 20–30 feet long, attached to the bridle, lungeing cavesson, or halter of a horse and used to control the animal while lungeing.
- An exercise performed by stepping forward one leg while kneeling with the other leg, then returning to a standing position.
- A fish, the namaycush.
Derived terms
- lunge whip
Translations
Verb
lunge (third-person singular simple present lunges, present participle lunging or lungeing, simple past and past participle lunged)
- (transitive, intransitive) To (cause to make) a sudden forward movement (present participle: lunging).
- I lunged at the police officer and made a grab for her gun.
- 2004, Louis L'Amour, Rustlers of West Fork
- With savage desperation the Indian lunged his horse straight at Hopalong and, knife in hand, leaped for him!
- (transitive) To longe or work a horse in a circle around a handler (present participle: lunging or lungeing).
Translations
Anagrams
- Leung
Danish
Etymology
From Old Norse lunga, from Proto-Germanic *lungô (literally “the light organ”), cognate with Norwegian lunge, Swedish lunga, German Lunge, English lung. The noun is derived from Proto-Indo-European *leng??- (“light, agile, nimble”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?l???]
Noun
lunge c (singular definite lungen, plural indefinite lunger)
- (anatomy) lung
Inflection
Derived terms
- lungebetændelse
- lungekapacitet
- lungekræft
- lungetransplantation
References
- “lunge” in Den Danske Ordbog
- “lunge” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?lun.d??e/
- Hyphenation: lùn?ge
Adverb
lunge
- Archaic form of lungi.
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *lungô (“the light organ”), from Proto-Indo-European *leng??- (“light, agile, nimble”). Compare Dutch long, English lung, Danish lunge, German Lunge, Swedish lunga, Icelandic lunga.
Noun
lunge m or f (definite singular lunga or lungen, indefinite plural lunger, definite plural lungene)
- (anatomy) a lung
Derived terms
- lungebetennelse
- lungekreft
- lungeskade
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *lungô (“the light organ”), from Proto-Indo-European *leng??- (“light, agile, nimble”). Akin to English lung.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /²l????/
Noun
lunge f (definite singular lunga, indefinite plural lunger, definite plural lungene)
- (anatomy) a lung
Derived terms
- lungebetennelse
- lungekreft
- lungeskade
Further reading
- “lunge” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
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