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shamateur|ˈʃæmətɜː(r), ʃæməˈtɜː(r)|
[f. sham a. + amateur.]
A sportsman who is classed as an amateur but behaves like a professional, esp. one who makes money out of his performances.
1896Badminton Mag. II. 533 For frank and open professionalism there may be a good deal to be said, but nothing can make the ‘promateur’ and the ‘shamateur’ attractive. 1928Sunday Dispatch 8 July 22/3 The Football Association do not regard their clean-up of non-professional Soccer as completed by the sensational exposure and punishment of four hundred ‘shamateurs’ and their accomplices in the North. 1955T. H. Pear Eng. Social Differences 247 An Oxbridge college which trained its ‘eight’ so rigidly that they did not take a reasonable part in university life, was criticised as exposing the University to the suspicion of encouraging ‘shamateurs’. 1962Punch 18 Apr. 627/2 The bitchery of high shamateur tennis. 1973Riessen & Evans Match Point i. x. facing p. 92 (caption) It was hard work being a ‘shamateur’—lugging all that booty around.
Hence ˈshamateurism.
1928Sat. Rev. 4 Feb. 126 Where the interests of amphitheatre and arena come first, ‘shamateurism’ must pass eventually into an honest professionalism. 1964Punch 6 May 668/1 Shamateurism has grown steadily in lawn tennis. 1979Financial Rev. (Sydney) 27 Aug. 25/2 Shamateurism is common enough and their activities probably do not inflict any real damage. |