Sportsman vs Shamateur - What's the difference?
sportsman | shamateur |
(UK) A man who engages in sports. A male athlete.
(dated) A man who engages in country sports, such as hunting or fishing.
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As nouns the difference between sportsman and shamateur
is that sportsman is (uk) a man who engages in sports a male athlete while shamateur is a sportsman who is officially an amateur but who makes money from playing, or who otherwise behaves as a professional.sportsman
English
(wikipedia sportsman)Noun
(sportsmen)- At last extinguishing the fire, he took the idol up very unceremoniously, and bagged it again in his grego pocket as carelessly as if he were a sportsman bagging a dead woodcock.
