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sham noun a streetwise young male; a friend; an untrustworthy individual IRELAND- It’s the fly shams I’m talking about. You have to keep watching them all the time. — Murphy Tom, A Whistle in the Dark, p. 12, 1989
- The True Tuam Sham talks out of the Left Hand Side of the mouth, with the lower lip rounded in pear-like fashion, with the majority opening to the left. All movements of the lips must be strictly confined to the Left Side. — Great Tuam Annual “The True Tuam Sham”, p. 5, 1991
- I’m not killing myself to get you a drink. Don’t worry, son, I’m not dying for one. Yet. Drawl. -Pint of Guinness, sham. — Eamonn Sweeney, Waiting for the Healer, p. 34, 1997
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