shamateurn.

1896 Badminton Mag. 2 533 For frank and open professionalism there may be a good deal to be said, but nothing can make the ‘promateur’ and the ‘shamateur’ attractive.

1901 Daily Chron. 29 Apr. 1 The shamateur, who enjoys all the privileges of the amateur, together with all the emoluments of the professional.

1927 Pict. Weekly 17 Sept. 178/1 I do not mean to suggest that every cricketer who poses as an amateur is in reality a Shamateur.

1928 Sunday Disp. 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.

1955 T. 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’.

1962 Punch 18 Apr. 627/2 The bitchery of high shamateur tennis.

1973 Riessen & Evans Match Point i. x. facing p. 92 (caption) It was hard work being a ‘shamateur’—lugging all that booty around.

1928 Sat. Rev. 4 Feb. 126 Where the interests of amphitheatre and arena come first, ‘shamateurism’ must pass eventually into an honest professionalism.

1964 Punch 6 May 668/1 Shamateurism has grown steadily in lawn tennis.

1979 Financial Rev. (Sydney) 27 Aug. 25/2 Shamateurism is common enough and their activities probably do not inflict any real damage.