different between shambler vs shambles

English

Etymology

shamble +? -er

Noun

shambler (plural shamblers)

1. One who shambles.
   • 1867, James Abbott, Narrative of a journey from Heraut to Khiva, Moscow, and St. Petersburgh

     But the dance should not be a slovenly crowd of indifferent and ungraceful shamblers […]

English

Etymology

From Old English s?amul. A borrowing from Vulgar Latin scamellum, scamillum (“little bench, ridge”), from Latin scamnum (“bench, ridge, breadth of a field”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??æmbl?z/

Noun

shambles (plural shambles)

1. work done in a poor fashion
2. a scene of great disorder or ruin
3. a great mess or clutter

   This website is a shambles.

4. a scene of bloodshed, carnage or devastation
5. a slaughterhouse
6. (archaic) a butcher's shop

   • Whatsoever is sold in the shambles, that eat, asking no question for conscience sake.

   • 1729, Jonathan Swift, A Modest Proposal

     As to our city of Dublin, shambles may be appointed for this purpose in the most convenient parts of it, and butchers we may be assured will not be wanting […]

Derived terms

• omnishambles
• shambolic
• shambolism
• shambly

Translations

Verb

shambles

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of shamble