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Shammer

Shammer \Sham"mer\, n. One who shams; an impostor.
--Johnson.

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shammer

n. A person who shams; a liar

WordNet
shammer

  1. n. someone shirking their duty by feigning illness or incapacity [syn: malingerer, skulker]

  2. a person who makes deceitful pretenses [syn: imposter, impostor, pretender, fake, faker, fraud, sham, pseudo, pseud, role player]

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Shammer

Shammer is a small village beside the village of Kilkelly in County Mayo, Ireland.

Usage examples of "shammer".

He lived in the streets for most of his life, starting as a pudding shammer and eventually acquiring his own gang of ten.

The only textbook cases are in textbooks, and we were told in college to be leery of any so-called textbook case because it might be a shammer, don't you know.