Толковый словарь английского языка - sham
Sham
sham
I. noun Etymology: perhaps from English dialect ~ ~e, alteration of English ~e Date: 1677 a trick that deludes ; hoax , cheap falseness ; hypocrisy , an ornamental covering for a pillow, an imitation or counterfeit purporting to be genuine, a person who ~s, see: imposture II. adjective Date: 1681 not genuine ; false , feigned , having such poor quality as to seem false, III. verb (~med; ~ming) Date: 1739 transitive verb to go through the external motions necessary to counterfeit, intransitive verb to act intentionally so as to give a false impression ; feign , see: assume ~mer noun
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v., n., & adj. --v. (shammed, shamming) 1 intr. feign, pretend. 2 tr. a pretend to be. b simulate (is shamming sleep). --n. 1 imposture, pretence. 2 a person or thing pretending or pretended to be what he or she or it is not. --adj. pretended, counterfeit. Derivatives shammer n. Etymology: perh. north. dial. var. of SHAME ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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