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shammer|ˈʃæmə(r)|
[f. sham v. + -er1.]
One who shams. †a. One who deceives or tricks with false pretences. Obs.
1677Wycherley Plain Dealer iii. i. 45, I shou'd make the worst Shammer in England. 1681R. L'Estrange (title), The Shammer Shamm'd. a1696Aubrey Lives, Sir H. Blount (1898) I. 110 He was heretofore a great shammer, i.e. one that tells falsities not to doe any body any injury, but to impose on their understanding.
b. One who shams illness, death, etc.
1861All Year Round 13 July 371 Mutiny shall be punished. Skulkers and shammers shall get their deserts. 1870Daily News 24 Dec., Many of them are genuine invalids, but many are mere shammers. 1875Houghton Sk. Brit. Insects 143 Like the Skip-jacks, these Death-watch-beetles are great shammers. |