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Shambles
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- 1 A scene of great disorder or ruin. countable, uncountable
"Considering my life's in shambles right now, couldn't you at least take the blame?"
- 2 a building where animals are butchered wordnet
- 3 A great mess or clutter. countable
"This bedroom is a shambles."
- 4 a condition of great disorder wordnet
- 5 A scene of bloodshed, carnage or devastation. countable
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- 6 A slaughterhouse. countable
- 7 A butcher's shop. archaic, countable
"Whatsoever is sold in the shambles, that eat, asking no question for conscience sake."
- 1 third-person singular simple present indicative of shamble form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Etymology
From Middle English schamels, plural of schamel, from Old English sċeamol, sċamul (“bench, stool”), from Proto-West Germanic *skamul, *skamil (“stool, bench”), from Vulgar Latin scamellum, from Latin scamillum (“little bench, ridge”), from Latin scamnum (“bench, ridge, breadth of a field”).
From Middle English schamels, plural of schamel, from Old English sċeamol, sċamul (“bench, stool”), from Proto-West Germanic *skamul, *skamil (“stool, bench”), from Vulgar Latin scamellum, from Latin scamillum (“little bench, ridge”), from Latin scamnum (“bench, ridge, breadth of a field”).
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