Definition of Shammers

1. shammer [n] - See also: shammer

Lexicographical Neighbors of Shammers

shamest
shameth
shami kebab
shamiana
shamianas
shaming
shamingly
shamisen
shamisens
shammas
shammash
shammashim
shammasim
shammed
shammer
shammers (current term)
shammied
shammies
shamming
shammos
shammosim
shammy
shammy leather
shammying
shamois
shamos
shamosim
shamoy
shamoyed

Literary usage of Shammers

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Kafirland: A Ten Months' Campaign by Frank Newton Streatfeild (1879)
"... as shammers, a great success—A dose of Worcester Sauce very efficacious medicine — Excuses to get leave—Post mortem examination—Another night in the ..."

2. Kafirland: A Ten Months' Campaign by Frank Newton Streatfeild (1879)
"... as shammers, a great success—A dose of Worcester Sauce very efficacious medicine — Excuses to get leave—Post mortem examination—Another night in the ..."

3. The British Quarterly Review by Robert Vaughan, Henry Allon (1876)
"They were constructed for the purpose of testing able-bodied paupers, and discovering whether they were ' malingerers ' and indolent shammers, or whether ..."

4. Neuropsychiatry and the War: A Bibliography with Abstracts by Mabel Webster Brown, Frankwood Earl Williams (1918)
"M. Marie, on the other hand, regards malingering among soldiers as common. Of forty patients, no less than nine were regarded by him as actual shammers, ..."

5. Neuropsychiatry and the War: A Bibliography with Abstracts by Mabel Webster Brown, Frankwood Earl Williams (1918)
"M. Marie, on the other hand, regards malingering among soldiers as common. Of forty patients, no less than nine were regarded by him as actual shammers, ..."

6. The Principles of Psychology by William James (1890)
"These ' shammers * continue to sham in just the same way, every new time you hypnotize them, until at last they are forced to admit that if shamming there ..."

7. The Principles of Psychology by William James (1902)
"... shammers' continue to sham in just the same way, every new time you hypnotize them, until at last they are forced to admit that if shamming there be, ..."

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