Noun: shambles
| Singular | shambles |
| Plural | shambles |
Sample Sentences
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Considering my life's in shambles right now, couldn't you at least take the blame? [1989 March 15, Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes:]
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This bedroom is a shambles.
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Whatsoever is sold in the shambles, that eat, asking no question for conscience sake. [1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Corinthians 10:25:]
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As to our City of Dublin, Shambles may be appointed for this purpoſe, in the moſt convenient parts of it, and Butchers vve may be aſſured vvill not be vvanting, […] [1729, [Jonathan Swift], A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People from Being a Burthen to Their Parents, or the Country, and for Making Them Beneficial to the Publick, Dublin: […] S[arah] Harding, […], →OCLC, page 8:]
Nouns inflected like shambles
cement works,
Old World ROM,
mythopoetics,
zhenniao,
ichimon,
seinen,
sedoka,
semese,
sentai,
senryū,
senbei,
whapuku,
whapuka,
selbri,
Cinghalese,
sayori,
sansho,
sanies,
sanmai,
sangza, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
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”). See: Latin Nouns '
scamillum', Latin Nouns '
scamnum'.
Verbs referencing "shambles"
Old Norse Nouns
skemill.