SHAMBLE Definition & Meaning

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shamble

[sham-buhl]

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noun

(used with a singular or plural verb)��shambles,
1. a slaughterhouse.
2. any place of carnage.
3. any scene of destruction.
  to turn cities into shambles.
4. any scene, place, or thing in disorder.
  Her desk is a shambles.
British Dialect.��a butcher's shop or stall.

shamble

[sham-buhl]

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verb (used without object)

shambled, shambling

to walk or go awkwardly; shuffle.

noun

a shambling gait.

shamble

/ ˈʃæ��ə�� /

verb

(intr) to walk or move along in an awkward or unsteady way

noun

an awkward or unsteady walk

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51�Թ� History and Origins

Origin of shamble¹

before 900; Middle English shamel, Old English sc ( e ) amel stool, table < Late Latin scamellum, Latin scamillum, diminutive of Latin scamnum bench; compare German Schemel

Origin of shamble²

1675–85; perhaps short for shamble-legs one that walks wide (i.e., as if straddling), reminiscent of the legs of a shamble ¹ (in earlier sense “butcher's table”)

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51�Թ� History and Origins

Origin of shamble¹

C17: from shamble (adj) ungainly, perhaps from the phrase shamble legs legs resembling those of a meat vendor's table; see _shambles

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L.A. is also the city of the 2006 Day Without Immigrants, where hundreds of thousands peacefully marched through the same downtown streets now in shambles.

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One is that the Trump administration rewarded a Gen Z campaign worker with a resume-boosting title that comes with little real power because the office is in shambles.

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General secretary Sharon Graham said negotiations had been "a shambles" and called on the council leader to "stop playing games, get in the room and solve this dispute".

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"From the council side, the negotiations in this dispute have been a shambles, with the government right at the heart of it," said Unite's General Secretary, Sharon Graham.

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But Sunday's loss at Kingsholm was a shambles, with defensive confusion evident from the first few minutes as Chiefs were cut open by Gloucester time and again.

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