sham Abram

English edit

Verb edit

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

Alternative form of sham Abraham [First attested in the late 18^th century.]^[1]

References edit

[Francis] Grose [et al.] (1811) “Sham Abram”, in Lexicon Balatronicum. A Dictionary of Buckish Slang, University Wit, and Pickpocket Eloquence. […], London: […] C. Chappell, […], →OCLC.

^ Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief, William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “sham Abram”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 7.

Anagrams edit

Abram sham

[SOED-1] Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief, William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “sham Abram”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 7.

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