riffle

Nouns

  • (n) a small wave on the surface of a liquid ripple, rippling, wavelet,
  • (n) shuffling by splitting the pack and interweaving the two halves at their corners

Verbs

  • (v) twitch or flutter
    • the paper flicked
    ruffle, flick,
  • (v) look through a book or other written material
    • He thumbed through the report
    • She leafed through the volume
    leaf, riff, flick, thumb, flip,
  • (v) stir up (water) so as to form ripples cockle, ripple, ruffle, undulate,
  • (v) shuffle (playing cards) by separating the deck into two parts and riffling with the thumbs so the cards intermix

Synonyms

ripple rippling wavelet ruffle flick leaf riff thumb flip cockle undulate

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