Added 10 October 2026
shambles
/ˈʃæmbəlz/ noun
Latin root: scamellum Wiktionary
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verb
- third-person singular simple present indicative of shamble
Origin
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”).
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