shambles

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A state of great disorder, mess, or confusion.

   After the party, the whole flat was in a complete shambles.

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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