Word of the Day May 8, 2024 [archive]

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. shamblesnoun

   a condition of great disorder

2. abattoir, butchery, shambles, slaughterhousenoun

   a building where animals are butchered

WiktionaryRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. shamblesnoun

   a scene of great disorder or ruin

2. shamblesnoun

   a great mess or clutter

   This website is a shambles.

3. shamblesnoun

   a scene of bloodshed, carnage or devastation

4. shamblesnoun

   a slaughterhouse

5. shamblesnoun

   a butcher's shop

6. Etymology: From scamul. A borrowing from scamellum, diminutive of scamnum.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Shamblesnoun

   Etymology: Of uncertain etymology. Scannaglia, Ital.

   1. The place where butchers kill or sell their meat; a butchery.

   Far be the thoughts of this from Henry’s heart,
   To make a shambles of the parliament-house. William Shakespeare, H. VI.

   I hope my noble lord esteems me honest.
   —— Oh, ay, as summer-flies are in the shambles,
   That quicken ev’n with blowing. William Shakespeare, Othello.

   He warned a flock of sheep, that were driving to the shambles, of their danger; and, upon uttering some sounds, they all fled. Arbuthnot.

   2. It is here improperly used.

   When the person is made the jest of the mob, or his back the shambles of the executioner, there is no more conviction in the one than in the other. Isaac Watts.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Shambles

   Shambles is an obsolete term for an open-air slaughterhouse and meat market.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Shambles

   sham′blz, n.pl. stalls on which butchers exposed their meat for sale, hence a flesh-market: a slaughter-house. [A.S. scamel (Ger. schämel), a stool—Low L. scamellum, for L. scabellum, dim. of scamnum, a bench.]

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1. • Building
   • Disorderliness

How to pronounce shambles?

1. Alex

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   Mark

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   Karen

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of shambles in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of shambles in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of shambles in a Sentence

1. Stuart Murray:

   Whether they can survive is going to depend on platinum prices and on whether they can fix themselves for a new reality of lower margins, they have to hold discussions with the government and with the unions to try to save what was a national treasure which is now a shambles.

2. Tiffany Haddish:

   My career is blowing things out of the water, my life, because I ’m a human, it feels like it’s in shambles, but it’s not. I ’m just sad because I’ve had some losses.

3. Andy Biggs:

   While the new mask guidance is encouraging, the CDC and my Far Radical Left colleagues only chose to do this to distract from the consequences of catastrophic policy decisions that have been heard around the world, inflation is rising, the Middle East is in shambles, the working class can’t fill up their gas tanks, our border is being overrun and the Biden Administration’s leadership is nowhere to be found.

4. Yan Jiehe:

   The government is willing to work with government firms, but co-operation with private companies is a shambles.

5. Daniel Faulkner:

   That is just infuriating to me, i don't know what John Fetterman's doing, but I think the Philadelphia people, the Pennsylvania people better really take a look at what they are going to do if they put John Fetterman in. The city is already destroyed. It's going to be in shambles by the time Fetterman's done with it.

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