sham

Probably a dialectal form of shame.

• IPA^(key): /ʃæm/
• Rhymes: -æm

sham (comparative more sham, superlative most sham)

1. Intended to deceive; false.

   It was only a sham wedding: they didn't care much for one another, but wanted their parents to stop hassling them.

2. counterfeit; unreal
   • Jowett

     They scorned the sham independence proffered to them by the Athenians.

• mock
• See also Thesaurus:fake

• genuine
• sincere
• real

• shammish

sham (plural shams)

1. A fake; an imitation that purports to be genuine.

   The time-share deal was a sham.

2. Trickery, hoaxing.

   A con-man must be skilled in the arts of sham and deceit.

3. A false front, or removable ornamental covering.
4. A decorative cover for a pillow.

• shamateur

• pillow sham

sham (third-person singular simple present shams, present participle shamming, simple past and past participle shammed)

1. To deceive, cheat, lie.
   • L'Estrange

     Fooled and shammed into a conviction.

2. To obtrude by fraud or imposition.
   • L'Estrange

     We must have a care that we do not […] sham fallacies upon the world for current reason.

3. To assume the manner and character of; to imitate; to ape; to feign.

• sham in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• sham in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• sham at OneLook Dictionary Search

• AMHS, HMAS, HSAM, MASH, MHAs, MSHA, Mahs, Mash, SAHM, Sahm, hams, mash

From Arabic شمع‎

sham

1. candle

From Arabic شمع‎

sham (plural shamlar)

1. candle