sham
11sham — (n.) 1670s, a trick, a hoax, a fraud, perhaps from sham, a northern dialectal variant of SHAME (Cf. shame) (q.v.). Sense of Something meant to be mistaken for something else is from 1728. The meaning in pillow sham (1721) is from the notion of… …
12sham# — sham n *imposture, cheat, fake, humbug, fraud, deceit, deception, counterfeit Analogous words: *pretense, pretension, make believe: *trick, ruse, feint, wile, gambit, ploy sham vb feign, simulate, counterfeit, pretend, *assume, affect Analogous… …
13sham — [adj] artificial, counterfeit adulterated, affected, assumed, bogus*, dummy, ersatz*, fake, false, feigned, fictitious, forged, fraudulent, imitation, lying, make believe, misleading, mock, phony, plaster*, pretend, pretended, pseudo*, simulated …
14sham — [sham] n. [prob. < N Eng dial. var. of SHAME] 1. Obs. a trick or fraud 2. a) an imitation that is meant to deceive; counterfeit b) a hypocritical action, deceptive appearance, etc. 3. a person who is not what he or she pretends to be; fraud;… …
15sham|oy — sham|ois or sham|oy «SHAM oy», noun. = chamois. (Cf. ↑chamois) …
16Sham — Sham, v. i. To make false pretenses; to deceive; to feign; to impose. [1913 Webster] Wondering . . . whether those who lectured him were such fools as they professed to be, or were only shamming. Macaulay. [1913 Webster] …
17sham|ba — «SHAM buh», noun. (in East Africa) a piece of cultivated land: »At dawn, parties form up to draw water, to drive cattle, and to work on the shambas (London Times). ╂[< Swahili shamba] …
18sham|my — «SHAM ee», noun, plural mies, or shammy leather, = chamois. (Cf. ↑chamois) …
19Sham 69 — Allgemeine Informationen Genre(s) Punk Rock Gründung 1975 Auflösung 1980 Neugründung 1987 Website …
20sham — ► NOUN 1) a person or thing that is not what they are claimed to be. 2) pretence. ► ADJECTIVE ▪ bogus; false. ► VERB (shammed, shamming) ▪ pretend or pretend to be. DERIV …
