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shame-job

shame-job is the alternative form of shame job.

Meaning of shame job

Noun

shame job (plural shame jobs)

  1. (Australian Aboriginal) Something that causes, or should cause, embarrassment or shyness.
    • When I first started writing, scribbling, I was living in Cunnamulla on the edge of a sandhill, and I could see anyone coming across the flat. I'd be sitting there with my little table, an old sewing machine base with a bit of wood on it — my writing desk. Anyone come and I'd grab all my pieces of...2007 July, Sue Abbey, quoting Herb Wharton, “An Ungraded Bush Track”, in Fryer Folios, volume 2, number 1, page 15 of 14–17

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Forms of shame-job

Noun
pluralshame-jobs
Adjective
comparativemore shame-job
superlativemost shame-job

Questions about shame-job

What is shame-job the alternative form of?
Shame-job is the alternative form of shame job.

Words near shame-job in the dictionary

  1. shame upon me
  2. shame upon you
  3. shame weed
  4. shame, shame
  5. shame-casting
  6. shame-job
  7. shame-jobs
  8. shame-stroke
  9. shame-strokes
  10. shameable
  11. shameanah

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