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Shaw vs Sham - What's the difference?

shaw | sham |

As proper nouns the difference between shaw and sham

is that shaw is an english topographic surname for someone who lived by a small wood or copse while sham is syria.

shaw

English

Alternative forms

* shawe

Noun

(en noun)
  • (label) A thicket; a small wood or grove.
  • *:
  • *:Thenne said sire kay I requyre you lete vs preue this aduenture / I shal not fayle you said sir Gaherys / and soo they rode that tyme tyl a lake / that was that tyme called the peryllous lake / And there they abode vnder the shawe of the wood
  • *1936 , (Alfred Edward Housman), More Poems , V, lines 1-2
    • The snows are fled away, leaves on the shaws , / And grasses in the mead renew their birth,
  • (label) The leaves and tops of vegetables, especially potatoes and turnips.
  • *1932 , (Lewis Grassic Gibbon), Sunset Song'', Polygon, 2006 (''A Scots Quair ), p.35:
  • *:Up here the hills were brave with the beauty and the heat of it, but the hayfield was still all a crackling dryness and in the potato park beyond the biggings the shaws drooped red and rusty already.

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    sham

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • 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.
  • counterfeit; unreal
  • * Jowett
    • They scorned the sham independence proffered to them by the Athenians.

    Synonyms

    * mock * See also

    Antonyms

    * genuine * sincere * real

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A fake; an imitation that purports to be genuine.
    • The time-share deal was a sham .
  • Trickery, hoaxing.
    • A con-man must be skilled in the arts of sham and deceit.
  • A false front, or removable ornamental covering.
  • A decorative cover for a pillow.

    • Derived terms

    * shamateur

    See also

    * pillow sham

    Verb

    (shamm)
  • To deceive, cheat, lie.
  • * L'Estrange
    • Fooled and shammed into a conviction.
  • 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.
  • To assume the manner and character of; to imitate; to ape; to feign.

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