Definition of SHAMBLES

shambles

Plural: shambles

Noun

  • a condition of great disorder
  • a building where animals are butchered
  • walking with a slow dragging motion without lifting your feet
  • A scene of great disorder or ruin.
  • A great mess or clutter.
  • A scene of bloodshed, carnage or devastation.
  • A slaughterhouse.
  • A butcher's shop.

Verb

  • walk by dragging one's feet
  • third-person singular simple present indicative of shamble

Examples

  • This bedroom is a shambles.

Origin / 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”).

Scrabble Score: 15

shambles: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
shambles: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
shambles: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 17

shambles: valid Words With Friends Word