Shuffle vs Hobble - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between shuffle and hobble

is that shuffle is the act of shuffling cards while hobble is short straps tied between the legs of unfenced horses, allowing them to wander short distances but preventing them from running off.

As verbs the difference between shuffle and hobble

is that shuffle is to put in a random order while hobble is to fetter by tying the legs; to restrict (a horse) with hobbles.

shuffle

English

Noun

(en noun)

The act of shuffling cards.

He made a real mess of the last shuffle .

An instance of walking without lifting one's feet.

''The sad young girl left with a tired shuffle .

(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.

A trick; an artifice; an evasion.

The gifts of nature are beyond all shame and shuffles . — L'Estrange.

Quotations

* 1995 Mel Kernahan, White savages in the South Seas, Verso, p113 *: 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, p394 *: 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, p148 *: Around her, she could hear the shuffle of her own hands, disturbing the shelves.

Derived terms

* to get / become / be lost in the shuffle

Verb

(shuffl)

To put in a random order.

Don't forget to shuffle the cards.

You shuffle , I'll deal.

The data packets are shuffled before transmission.

I'm going to shuffle all the songs in my playlist.

To move in a slovenly, dragging manner; to drag or scrape the feet in walking or dancing.

He shuffled out of the room.

I shuffled my feet in embarrassment.

* Keats

The aged creature came / Shuffling along with ivory-headed wand.

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To change; modify the order of something.

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To change one's position; to shift ground; to evade questions; to resort to equivocation; to prevaricate.

* Shakespeare

I myself, hiding mine honour in my necessity, am fain to shuffle .

To use arts or expedients; to make shift.

* Shakespeare

Your life, good master, / Must shuffle for itself.

To shove one way and the other; to push from one to another.

to shuffle money from hand to hand

To remove or introduce by artificial confusion.

* Dryden

It was contrived by your enemies, and shuffled into the papers that were seiz'd.

Synonyms

* (sense, walk without picking up one's feet) shamble

Derived terms

* deshuffle * reshuffle * shufflable, shuffleable * shuffle off this mortal coil * shuffle off * shuffle up * shuffler

hobble

English

Noun

(en noun) (usually in plural )

Short straps tied between the legs of unfenced horses, allowing them to wander short distances but preventing them from running off.

An unsteady, off-balance step.

Synonyms

* tether (rope)

Verb

To fetter by tying the legs; to restrict (a horse) with hobbles.

(Charles Dickens)

To walk lame, or unevenly.

* Dryden

The friar was hobbling the same way too.

(figurative) To move roughly or irregularly.

* Jeffreys

The hobbling versification, the mean diction.

To perplex; to embarrass.

Derived terms

* hobble skirt * hobbly * unhobble