different between shuffle vs whuffle

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).

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?f?l

Verb

whuffle (third-person singular simple present whuffles, present participle whuffling, simple past and past participle whuffled)

1. (intransitive) To make a low snuffling or blowing sound.
   • 2010, Peggy Nicholson, Serpent in Turquoise (page 72)

     Poquita whuffled and jerked at her lead, trying to swing right around. “No, no, we can't go home yet. Not for a silly snake. We just scared him is all.”