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Meanings of shammer in English

Portuguese
impostor
Catalan
farsant
Spanish
impostor

A person who makes deceitful pretenses.

      impostor
      Catalan
      escaquejat
      Spanish
      simulador

      Someone shirking their duty by feigning illness or incapacity.

            escaquejat
            Usage of shammer in English
            1
            The sham is often so perfect an image of the reality that even the shammer is deceived.
            Power Through Repose
            2
            You are such a lovely shammer.
            Jack Harkaway's Boy Tinker Among The Turks / Book Number Fifteen...
            3
            After examining Sergeant Mock's feet for twenty minutes, and testing the skin as well, he pronounced Mock a shammer.
            Uncle Sam's Boys with Pershing's Troops / Or, Dick Prescott at G...
            4
            They are shammers and deceivers.
            Ivanoff: A Play
            5
            "He's quite right, sir," said Harry Girdwood, "you are inimitable as a shammer."
            Jack Harkaway's Boy Tinker Among The Turks / Book Number Fifteen...
            Translations for shammer
            Shammer through the time