shammern.
/ˈʃamə/, U.S. /ˈʃæmər/ One who shams.† a. One who deceives or tricks with false pretences. Obsolete.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > a charlatan, fraudster > [noun]
shondc725
faitoura1340
fob1393
trumper?c1450
feature14..
chuffera1500
prowler1519
truphane1568
cozener1575
cogger1580
pretender1583
impostor1586
mountebank1589
sycophant?1589
foolmonger1593
affronter1598
assumer1600
knight (also lord, man, etc.) of gingerbread1602
pettifogger1602
budgeter1603
quacksalver1611
empiric1614
putter-off?1615
quack1638
stafador1638
saltimbanco1646
adventurer1648
fourbe1668
shammer1677
imposer1678
charlatana1680
sham1683
cheat1687
hocus1692
gull1699
shamster1716
coal-blower1720
humbugger1752
gagger1781
fudge1794
humbug1804
potwalloper1820
twister1834
jackleg1844
fraud1850
bunyip1852
empiricist1854
Bayswater Captain1880
bluffer1888
putter-down1906
quandong1939
1677 W. Wycherley Plain-dealer iii. 53 I shou'd make the worst Shammer in England.
1681 R. L'Estrange (title) The Shammer Shamm'd.
a1696 J. Aubrey Brief Lives: 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.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > dissimulation, pretence > [noun] > one who or that which dissembles
feigner1382
pseudo1402
simular1526
simuler1534
colourer1554
counterfeiter1561
truphane1568
counterfeit1574
put-forth1581
pretender1583
impostor1586
idol1590
would-be1607
phantasm1622
farce1696
imposture1699
Barmecide1713
simulator1835
fraud1850
sham1850
fake1855
swindle1858
shammer1861
make-believe1863
hoax1869
economizer1874
make-believer1884
ringer1896
phoney1902
faker1910
shill1976
1861 All Year Round 13 July 371 Mutiny shall be punished. Skulkers and shammers shall get their deserts.
1870 Daily News 24 Dec. Many of them are genuine invalids, but many are mere shammers.
1875 W. Houghton Sketches Brit. Insects 143 Like the Skip-jacks, these Death-watch-beetles are great shammers.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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