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shame jobs

shame jobs is the plural 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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Questions about shame jobs

What is shame jobs the plural of?
Shame jobs is the plural of shame job.

Words near shame jobs in the dictionary

  1. shamdemic
  2. shamdemics
  3. shame
  4. shame be to him who thinks evil of it
  5. shame job
  6. shame jobs
  7. shame on me
  8. shame on you
  9. shame plant
  10. shame plants
  11. shame pole

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