Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

shuffle off this mortal coil

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.19 in modern English

Syllables: shuf-fle of-f this -mor-tal -coil
IPA

46

Scrabble Score

24

Letters

6

Syllables

13

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To die; to divest oneself of one's mortal body.

Example Sentences

"For in that ſleepe of death, what dreames may come, / When we haue ſhuffel'd off this mortall coile, / Muſt giue vs pawſe."
"But when you and I shuffle off this mortal coil, formal remembrances won’t be the only way we are remembered."
"Handsome, with a Freud-like beard and piercing eyes, it was also said that he had perfected the death stare. Whenever he required the skeleton of some exotic beast to compare with his fossil bones, he would visit Basel Zoo and stare at the appropriate animal, which would soon thereafter shuffle off its mortal coil."
"“I would like to understand before I croak. I would like to understand, and then I’m perfectly fine to shuffle off my mortal coil.”"

Etymology

From Hamlet by William Shakespeare, see mortal coil.

Inflected Forms

shuffles off this mortal coil (present, singular) shuffling off this mortal coil (participle, present) shuffled off this mortal coil (participle, past) shuffled off this mortal coil (past) shuffle off one's mortal coil (alternative)

Synonyms

assume room temperature auger in be called home be gathered to one's fathers be like the the One be no more be with Jesus be with the Lord bite the big one bite the biscuit bite the dust buy the farm

Questions

What does shuffle off this mortal coil mean?: To die; to divest oneself of one's mortal body.
Where does shuffle off this mortal coil come from?: From Hamlet by William Shakespeare, see mortal coil.

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