shammer

Other forms of shammer

plural

shammers·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about shammer

What does shammer mean?

shammer means "someone shirking their duty by feigning illness or incapacity". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in shammer?

shammer has 2 syllables: sham-mer. The stress falls on "sham".

What is another word for shammer?

Close synonyms include malingerer, skulker, imposter, impostor, pretender. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is shammer a common word?

shammer is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.