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Date: 1700-1800
Origin: Perhaps from ripple + ruffle

riffle

 verb
     
rif‧fle also riffle through [transitive]
to move and quickly look at pieces of paper or the pages of a book, magazine etc [↪ flip through]:
He riffled through the papers on his desk.
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