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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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prance
English
Etymology
From Middle English prancen, prauncen (“to prance; literally, to show off”), variant of Middle English pranken (“to prank”). Cognate with Bavarian prangezen, prangssen (“to put on airs”), Alemannic German pranzen (“to strut”). More at prank.
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /p?æn(t)s/
- Rhymes: -æns
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /p???n(t)s/
- Rhymes: -??ns
Verb
prance (third-person singular simple present prances, present participle prancing, simple past and past participle pranced)
- (of a horse) To spring forward on the hind legs.
- (colloquial, figuratively) To strut about in a showy manner.
Derived terms
- prancesome
- prancy
Translations
Noun
prance (plural prances)
- A prancing movement.
- D. H. Lawrence, The Rainbow
- There seemed a little prance of triumph in his movement,
- D. H. Lawrence, The Rainbow
Anagrams
- parcen
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