slicker vs shammer

shammer vs slicker

slicker and shammer both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
slicker	Yes	No	No	No
shammer	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, shammer is a hyponym of slicker; that is, shammer is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than slicker:

slicker: someone who leads you to believe something that is not true
shammer: a person who makes deceitful pretenses

Other hyponyms of slicker include bluffer, four-flusher, chiseler, chiseller, defrauder, gouger, grifter, scammer, swindler, decoy, steerer, dodger, fox, slyboots, betrayer, double-crosser, double-dealer, traitor, two-timer, defalcator, embezzler, peculator, falsifier, finagler, wangler, counterfeiter, forger, fortune hunter, figurehead, front, front man, nominal head, straw man, strawman, dissembler, dissimulator, hypocrite, phoney, phony, pretender, imitator, impersonator, fake, faker, fraud, imposter, impostor, pretender, pseud, pseudo, role player, sham, liar, prevaricator, misleader, charlatan, mountebank, obscurantist, sandbagger, two-timer, utterer.

slicker (noun)	shammer (noun)
a macintosh made from cotton fabric treated with oil and pigment to make it waterproof	a person who makes deceitful pretenses
someone who leads you to believe something that is not true	someone shirking their duty by feigning illness or incapacity
a person with good manners and stylish clothing

Difference between slicker and shammer

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