litter vs shuffle

litter

verb
  • To scatter carelessly about. 

  • To drop or throw trash without properly disposing of it (as discarding in public areas rather than trash receptacles). 

  • To give birth to, used of animals. 

  • To strew (a place) with scattered articles. 

  • To supply (cattle etc.) with litter; to cover with litter, as the floor of a stall. 

  • To be supplied with litter as bedding; to sleep or make one's bed in litter. 

  • To produce a litter of young. 

noun
  • Material used as bedding for animals. 

  • A platform mounted on two shafts, or a more elaborate construction, designed to be carried by two (or more) people to transport one (in luxury models sometimes more) third person(s) or (occasionally in the elaborate version) a cargo, such as a religious idol. 

  • Collectively, items discarded on the ground. 

  • A covering of straw for plants. 

  • Absorbent material used in an animal's litter tray 

  • The offspring of a mammal born in one birth. 

  • Layer of fallen leaves and similar organic matter in a forest floor. 

shuffle

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

  • To put in a random order. 

  • To remove or introduce by artificial confusion. 

  • To change; modify the order of something. 

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

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

  • To use arts or expedients; to make shift. 

noun
  • An instance of walking without lifting one's feet. 

  • The act of shuffling cards. 

  • 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. 

  • The act of reordering anything, such as music tracks in a media player. 

  • A dance move in which the foot is scuffed across the floor back and forth. 

  • A trick; an artifice; an evasion. 

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