shambles
21shambles — Something incomprehensible or in severe disarray. {No idea why we do it, but sometimes a real word, with nothing new in its description or example, will be added to the pseudodictionary.) After that kegger on Friday night, my place was a shambles …
22shambles — gyvulių skerdykla statusas Aprobuotas sritis gyvulininkystė apibrėžtis Įmonė, kuri gyvulius superka, skerdžia, prekiauja skerdenomis ir (ar) jų dalimis, ir (ar) skerdimo produktais. atitikmenys: angl. abattoir; shambles; slaughterhouse vok.… …
23shambles — n.pl. (usu. treated as sing.) 1 colloq. a mess or muddle (the room was a shambles). 2 a butcher s slaughterhouse. 3 a scene of carnage. Etymology: pl. of shamble stool, stall f. OE sc(e)amul f. WG f. L scamellum dimin. of scamnum bench …
24Shambles Square, Manchester — Shambles Square is a square in Manchester, England, created in 1999 to house the rebuilt Old Wellington Inn and Sinclair s Oyster Bar next to the Mitre Hotel . Etymology Shambles was a name originally used for a street of butchers shops where… …
25Shambles Glacier — (coord|67|20|S|68|13|W|type:glacier region:AQ|display=inline,title) is a steep glacier 4 miles (6 km) long and 6 miles (10 km) wide, with very prominent hummocks and crevasses, flowing east between Mount Bouvier and Mount Mangin into Stonehouse… …
26shambles — Synonyms and related words: Augean stables, Belsen, DMZ, abattoir, aceldama, battle line, battle site, battlefield, battleground, bloodbath, blue ruin, botch, botchery, breakup, butchering, butchery, carnage, chaos, combat area, combat zone,… …
27shambles — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. pl. slaughterhouse, abattoir (see killing); wreck, chaos, mess. See disorder. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. mess, hodge podge, confusion; see disorder 2 . III (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) n. mess, disorder,… …
28shambles — [shamil] , sb. Rel. Ant. ii. p. 176 …
29shambles — sham·bles || ʃæmblz n. disorder, mess; disastrous state or condition; slaughterhouse, place where animals are butchered for meat; place of carnage sham·ble || ʃæmbl n. shuffle, clumsy stride, awkward gait v. walk clumsily, shuffle, walk… …
30shambles — plural noun [treated as sing.] 1》 informal a chaotic state. 2》 archaic a butcher s slaughterhouse. Origin ME (in the sense meat market ): plural of earlier shamble stool, stall , of W. Gmc origin, from L. scamellum, dimin. of scamnum bench …
