shamble

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  1. intransitive verb To walk in an awkward, lazy, or unsteady manner, shuffling the feet.
  2. noun A shuffling gait.

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  • To hold his power he was willing to run the risk of making his own country a bloody shamble, but President Wilson had the measure of the tyrant Huerta from the beginning, and soon his efforts to isolate him began to bear fruit. —  WOODROW WILSON AS I KNOW HIM
  • But their walk was a noisy, graceless shamble, and their words came out too fast, twisted around a strange, inhuman tongue. —  F ;SF; - vol 101 issue 06 - December 2001
  • He watched his arms move and his legs shamble, while inside his head he screamed for someone to help him. —  Wit'ch's Storm
  • The time to celebrate all things that shamble, decompose, and eat brains. —  Pink Raygun - News, Reviews and Interviews for Fangirls...and boys
  • "Our economic lives are in a shamble, Megan: We don't really care about your dating life." —  Think Progress
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  1. Probably from obsolete shamble, awkward, ungainly, from Middle English schamil, butcher's table; see shambles.

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  1. Early modern English also shammel, shamell; from Middle English schambylle, earlier shamel, schamel, schamil, schamylle, seheomel, a butchers' bench or stall, orig. a stool, (Anglo-Saxon scamol, scamel, sceamul, a stool (fōt-scamel, a footstool), = Old Saxon scamel, scamil, stool (fōt-scamel, a footstool), = Old High German scamal, scamil, Middle High German schemel, schamel. G. schämel, schemel = Icelandic skemill = Danish skammel, a footstool, = Old French scamel, eschamel, from Latin scamellum, a little bench or stool; cf. scabellum, a footstool (later Italian sgabello, a joint-stool, = French escabeau, escabelle, a stool); diminutive of scamnum, a step; cf. Latin scapus, a shaft, stem, stalk, Greek σκήπτειν, prop, etc.: see scape, scepter, shaft.
  2. from shamble, n.
  3. An assibilated form of scamble.
  4. from shamble, v.
 

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