English-Thai Dictionary

shamble

VI เดิน ลาก ขา  เดิน อุ้ยอ้าย  hobble shuffle run doen-lak-ka

 

shambles

N ความยุ่งเหยิง  ความโกลาหล  สถานการณ์ สับสนวุ่นวาย  chaos confusion mess order kwam-yung-yoeng

 

shambles

N โรงฆ่าสัตว์  ร้าน ขาย เนื้อสัตว์  สถานที่ ที่ สับสนวุ่นวาย  rong-ka-sad

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

SHAMBLES

n.[L. scamnum a bench; from L. scando.] 1. The place where butcher's meat is sold; a flesh-market.
2. In mining, a nich or shelf at suitable distances to receive the ore which is thrown from one to another, and thus raised to the top.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

SHAMBLE

Sham "ble, n. Etym: [OE. schamel a bench, stool, AS. scamel, sceamol,a bench, form, stool, fr. L. scamellum, dim. of scamnum a bench, stool. ]

 

1. (Mining )

 

Defn: One of a succession of niches or platforms, one above another, to hold ore which is thrown successively from platform to platform, and thus raised to a higher level.

 

2. pl.

 

Defn: A place where butcher's meat is sold. As summer flies are in the shambles. Shak.

 

3. pl.

 

Defn: A place for slaughtering animals for meat. To make a shambles of the parliament house. Shak.

 

SHAMBLE

Sham "ble, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Shambled; p. pr. & vb. n. Shambling. ]Etym: [Cf. OD. schampelen to slip, schampen to slip away, escape. Cf. Scamble, Scamper. ]

 

Defn: To walk awkwardly and unsteadily, as if the knees were weak; to shuffle along.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

shamble

sham ble |ˈSHambəl ˈʃæmbəl | ▶verb [ no obj. ] (of a person ) move with a slow, shuffling, awkward gait: he shambled off down the corridor. ▶noun [ in sing. ] a slow, shuffling, awkward gait. ORIGIN late 16th cent.: probably from dialect shamble ‘ungainly, ’ perhaps from the phrase shamble legs, with reference to the legs of trestle tables (such as would be used in a meat market: see shambles ).

 

shambles

sham bles |ˈSHambəlz ˈʃæmbəlz | ▶plural noun [ treated as sing. ] 1 informal a state of total disorder: my career was in a shambles . 2 a butcher's slaughterhouse (archaic except in place names ). • a scene of carnage: the room was a shambles —their throats had been cut and they lay in a waste of blood. ORIGIN late Middle English (in the sense ‘meat market ’): plural of earlier shamble ‘stool, stall, ’ from Latin scamellum, diminutive of scamnum ‘bench. ’

 

Oxford Dictionary

shamble

sham ¦ble |ˈʃamb (ə )l | ▶verb [ no obj., with adverbial of direction ] (of a person ) move with a slow, shuffling, awkward gait: he shambled off down the corridor. ▶noun [ in sing. ] a slow, shuffling, awkward gait. DERIVATIVES shambly adjective ORIGIN late 16th cent.: probably from dialect shamble ‘ungainly ’, perhaps from the phrase shamble legs, with reference to the legs of trestle tables (such as would be used in a meat market: see shambles ).

 

shambles

sham ¦bles |ˈʃamb (ə )lz | ▶plural noun [ treated as sing. ] 1 informal a state of total disorder: my career was in a shambles . 2 a butcher's slaughterhouse (archaic except in place names ).

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

shamble

shamble verb I hear Mr. Billings shambling down the hall: shuffle, drag one's feet, lumber, totter, dodder; hobble, limp.

 

shambles

shambles plural noun 1 we have to sort out this shambles: chaos, mess, muddle, confusion, disorder, havoc, mare's nest, dog's breakfast. 2 the room was a shambles: mess, pigsty; informal disaster area.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

shamble

shamble verb he shambled off down the corridor: shuffle, lumber, totter, dodder, stumble; scuff /drag one's feet; hobble, limp. ANTONYMS run, sprint, bound.

 

shambles

shambles noun 1 he called an emergency summit of ED leaders to sort out the shambles: chaos, mess, muddle, confusion, disorder, disarray, disorganization, havoc, mare's nest; Brit. informal dog's dinner, dog's breakfast. 2 the room was a shambles: complete mess, pigsty; N. Amer. pigpen; informal disaster area; Brit. informal tip.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

shamble

sham ble /ʃǽmb (ə )l /動詞 自動詞 〖～＋副詞 〗よたよたと [足を引きずって ]歩く (along, past, out ).名詞 C よろよろ歩き .

 

shambles

sham bles /ʃǽmb (ə )lz /名詞 1 〖通例a (…) ～; 単数扱い 〗大混乱 (の場 ), 修羅 （しゆら ）場 ▸ be (in ) a shambles 〈場所 状況などが 〉ひどく混乱して [めちゃくちゃになって ]いる 2 C ｟古 ｠屠場 （とじよう ）; 流血の場 .