| 单词 | to cut a sham |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto cut a sham a. A trick, hoax, fraud, imposture; something devised to impose upon, delude, or disappoint expectation; a ‘sell’. to put a sham upon: to hoax, defraud. to cut a sham: ‘to play a Rogue's trick’ (B.E. Dict. Cant. Crew, a1700). Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > [noun] > instance of braida1000 fraudc1374 mock1523 brogue1537 flim-flamc1538 imposture1548 lie1560 cozening1576 smoke-hole1580 gullery1598 gull1600 cog1602 coggery1602 fraudulency1630 imposition1632 cheat1649 fourbery1650 prestige1656 sham1677 crimp1684 bite1711 humbug1750 swindle1778 hookum-snivey1781 shim-sham1797 gag1805 intake1808 racket1819 wooden nutmeg1822 sell1838 caper1851 skin game1879 Kaffir bargain1899 swizzle1913 swizz1915 put-on1919 ready-up1924 rort1926 jack-up1945 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > trickery, playing jokes > trick, hoax [verb (transitive)] jape1362 bejape1377 play1562 jugglea1592 dally1595 trick1595 bore1602 jadea1616 to fool off1631 top1663 whiska1669 hocus1675 to put a sham upon1677 sham1677 fun?1685 to put upon ——1687 rig1732 humbug1750 hum1751 to run a rig1764 hocus-pocus1774 cram1794 hoax1796 kid1811 string1819 to play off1821 skylark1823 frisk1825 stuff1844 lark1848 kiddy1851 soap1857 to play it (on)1864 spoof1889 to slip (something) over (on)1912 cod1941 to pull a person's chain1975 game1996 1677 W. Wycherley Plain-dealer iii. 53 Law. Why, I'm sure you jok'd upon me, and shamm'd me all night long. Man...Shamming! What does he mean by't Freeman? Free. Shamming, is telling you an insipid, dull Lye, with a dull Face, which the slie Wag the Author only laughs at himself; and making himself believe 'tis a good Jest, puts the Sham only upon himself. 1678 Lady Chaworth in 12th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1890) App. v. 53 A letter to the Secretary..some feare..that tis rather a sham to prevent stricter scherch. 1678 T. ay Friendship in Fashion i. i The Sham won't pass upon me, Sir, it won't look you. 1680 Refl. Late Libel on Curse-ye-Meroz 19 'Tis but a Tale, and a Story of his own making, like all the rest of the Sham's he would gladly put upon the Author. 1681 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) I. 66 Some scruple not to think this a shamm, and only an accusation to draw in others. 1688 Eng. Prot. Mem. to Pr. & P'cess Orange 19 They thought it an easie sham to say women misreckoned very often. a1696 J. Aubrey Brief Lives: Chaloner (1898) I. 160 He [Chaloner] wrote..an anonymous pamphlett, 8vo, scil. An account of the Discovery of Moyses's Tombe... 'Twas a pretty while before the shamme was detected. 1727 D. Defoe Ess. Hist. Apparitions viii. 141 He..seem'd to laugh that she should first put such a Sham upon him, and then to tell such a formal Story to make it good. 1751 Affecting Narr. H.M.S. Wager 31 I own, I ever look'd upon the whole Affair as a Sham. 1821 W. M. Praed Gog i. 191 You think I'm playing off a sham. < as lemmas |
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