Ramshackle vs Shamble - What's the difference?
ramshackle | shamble |
In disrepair or disorder; poorly maintained; lacking upkeep, usually of buildings or vehicles.
* Thackeray
* {{quote-news
, year=2012
, date=September 7
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, title=England start World Cup campaign with five-goal romp against Moldova
, work=The Guardian
To walk while shuffling or dragging the feet.
(mining) One of a succession of niches or platforms, one above another, to hold ore which is thrown successively from platform to platform, and thus raised to a higher level.
As an adjective ramshackle
is in disrepair or disorder; poorly maintained; lacking upkeep, usually of buildings or vehicles.As a verb shamble is
to walk while shuffling or dragging the feet.As a noun shamble is
(mining) one of a succession of niches or platforms, one above another, to hold ore which is thrown successively from platform to platform, and thus raised to a higher level.ramshackle
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- There came my lord the cardinal, in his ramshackle coach.
- They stayed in a ramshackle cabin on the beach.
- He entered the ramshackle bus, and was driven a long distance through very sandy streets to the hotel on the St. Lawrence.
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Synonyms
* (in disrepair or disorder) bedraggled, broken-down, dilapidated, rickety, ruinous, rundown, tatterdemalion, tumbledownshamble
English
Verb
(shambl)- I wasn't too impressed with the fellow, when he shambled in unenthusiastically and an hour late.