cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
fain
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /feɪn/
homophone: fane
homophone: feign
homophone: foehn
rhymes: -eɪn
Forms: form: fains
form: faining
form: fained
form: fained
form: no-table-tags
form: glossary
form: fain
form: fain
form: fained
form: fain
form: fainest
form: fained
form: fainedst
form: fains
form: faineth
form: fained
form: fain
form: fained
form: fain
form: fained
form: fain
form: -
form: faining
form: fained
form: faine
Etymology: From Middle English fainen (“to be glad or joyful, rejoice; to make happy, gladden; to welcome; of an animal: to show happiness, as by wagging the tail; to act fawningly or flatteringly”), from Old English fæġnian (“to be glad, rejoice; to celebrate; to be delighted with, applaud; to wish for”), from Proto-West Germanic *faginōn (“to be glad, rejoice; to make glad, gladden”), from Proto-Germanic *faginōną (“to be glad, rejoice”), from *faganaz (“glad”): see further at etymology 1. Doublet of fawn.
Senses: examples: text: Hovv often vvould the Svvaines prepare their Morrice & their May / To haue a ſight of her, vvhen all enamoured vvent their vvay? / The ſprevvſeſt Citie-Lads for her vvould faine the Countrie-aire, / And that their prouder Girles had but adultrate beauties ſvvaire, […]
ref: 1606, William Warner, “The Sixteenth Booke. Chapter CI.”, in A Continuance of Albions England: […], London: […] Felix Kyngston [and Richard Bradock?] for George Potter, […], →OCLC, page 399:
glosses: To be delighted or glad about (someone or something); to rejoice in; also, to favour or prefer (someone or something).
synonyms: word: delight
word: perk up
word: beatify
word: begladden
word: blissen
word: bright
word: cheer
word: cheer up
word: content
word: delight
word: elate
word: enbliss
word: exhilarate
word: fain
word: gay
word: gladden
word: gladden someone's heart
word: gratify
word: happify
word: happy
word: hearten
word: jollify
word: laetificate
word: light up
word: make someone's day
word: perk up
word: please
word: raise someone's spirits
word: rejoice
word: turn the frown upside down
word: upcheer
word: warm someone's heart
word: warm the cockles of someone's heart
glosses: To make (someone) glad; to gladden; hence, to congratulate (someone); to welcome (someone).
topics: lifestyle
paganism
religion
glosses: To celebrate or worship; specifically, to offer an oblation which is not a sacrificial blót (“ceremonial offering”).
examples: text: A diſtaffe in her other hand ſhe had, / Vpon the vvhich ſhe litle ſpinnes, but ſpils, / And faynes to vveaue falſe tales and leaſings bad, / To throvv amongſt the good, vvhich others had diſprad.
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], part II (books IV–VI), London: […] [Richard Field] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC, stanza 36, page 351:
glosses: Chiefly followed by of, in, on, or to: to be delighted or glad; to rejoice.
glosses: To desire, to wish.
faint
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /feɪnt/
homophone: feint
rhymes: -eɪnt
Forms: form: fainter
form: faintest
form: feint
Etymology: From Middle English faynt, feynt (“weak; feeble”), from Old French faint, feint (“feigned; negligent; sluggish”), past participle of feindre, faindre (“to feign; sham; work negligently”), from Latin fingere (“to touch, handle, form, shape, frame, form in thought, imagine, conceive, contrive, devise, feign”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeyǵʰ- (“to mold”). Cognate with feign and fiction and more distantly dough.
Senses: examples: text: I felt faint after my fifth gin and tonic.
text: He almost fell faint due to the hot climate.
glosses: Lacking strength; weak; languid; inclined to lose consciousness
raw_tags: of a being
examples: text: Faint heart ne'er won fair lady.
ref: 1789, Robert Burns, to Dr. Blacklock:
glosses: Lacking courage, spirit, or energy; cowardly; dejected.
examples: text: There was a faint red light in the distance.
synonyms: word: dull
word: wan
word: bland
word: colourless
word: dim
word: dingy
word: dull
word: faint
word: lackluster
word: leaden
word: muddy
word: sad
word: sober
word: uncolorful
word: unholiday
word: wan
glosses: Barely perceptible; not bright, or loud, or sharp.
examples: text: faint efforts
text: faint resistance
glosses: Performed, done, or acted, weakly; not exhibiting vigor, strength, or energy.
examples: text: do you have the faintest understanding of what they mean?
ref: 2005, Plato, translated by Lesley Brown, Sophist, page 243b:
glosses: Slight; minimal.
examples: text: Happening to pass a fruiterer’s on their way; the door of which was open, though the shop was by this time shut; one of them remarked how faint the peaches smelled.
ref: 1843, Charles Dickens, Martin Chuzzlewit:
glosses: Sickly, so as to make a person feel faint.
Derived terms: damn with faint praise
fainten
faint-heart
faintheart
faint-hearted
fainthearted
faint heart never won fair lady
fainthood
faintish
faintling
faintly
faintness
faint of heart
faintward
forfaint
overfaint
praise with faint damns
ultrafaint
faint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /feɪnt/
homophone: feint
rhymes: -eɪnt
Forms: form: faints
Etymology: From Middle English faynt, feynt (“weak; feeble”), from Old French faint, feint (“feigned; negligent; sluggish”), past participle of feindre, faindre (“to feign; sham; work negligently”), from Latin fingere (“to touch, handle, form, shape, frame, form in thought, imagine, conceive, contrive, devise, feign”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeyǵʰ- (“to mold”). Cognate with feign and fiction and more distantly dough.
Senses: examples: text: She suffered another faint.
glosses: The act of fainting, syncope.
glosses: The state of one who has fainted; a swoon.
Derived terms: faintful
faintless
faintsome
faint
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /feɪnt/
homophone: feint
rhymes: -eɪnt
Forms: form: faints
form: fainting
form: fainted
form: fainted
Etymology: From Middle English fainten, feynten, from the adjective (see above).
Senses: examples: text: If I send them away fasting […] they will faint by the way.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Mark 8:8:
text: But upon hearing the Honour which he intended her , she fainted away , and fell down as Dead at his Feet
ref: 1713 September 22, Richard Steele, The Guardian, number 167:
glosses: To lose consciousness through a lack of oxygen or nutrients to the brain, usually as a result of suddenly reduced blood flow (may be caused by emotional trauma, loss of blood or various medical conditions).
examples: text: If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Proverbs 24:10:
glosses: To lose courage or spirit; to become depressed or despondent.
examples: November 12, 1711, Alexander Pope, letter to Henry Cromwell
Gilded clouds, while we gaze upon them, faint before the eye.
glosses: To decay; to disappear; to vanish.
Synonyms: sense: to lose consciousness
word: pass out
sense: to lose consciousness
word: swoon
sense: to lose consciousness
word: sweb
sense: to lose consciousness
word: black out
sense: to lose consciousness
word: keel over
word: queal
Derived terms: afaint
fainting goat
faintingly
faintingness
fainty
unfainting
faithless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more faithless
form: most faithless
Etymology: From Middle English feithles, equivalent to faith + -less.
Senses: examples: text: "You're so faithless about pills," he said, "that I'm not going to give you any."
ref: 1970, Margaret Wade Campbell Deland, Old Chester Days, page 58:
glosses: Lacking faith; lacking belief in something.
glosses: Not believing in God, religion, or a comparable ideology.
examples: text: Menelaus, who fought to recover his faithless wife, has clearly rooted himself in Sparta for the remainder of his life […]
ref: 1996, Frederick Ahl, Hanna Roisman, The Odyssey re-formed, page 283:
glosses: Unfaithful (said of people, towards their partners)
glosses: Not observant of promises or covenants.
synonyms: perfidious
treacherous
disloyal
glosses: Not true to allegiance, duty, or vows
synonyms: delusive
unsatisfying
glosses: Serving to disappoint or deceive
Derived terms: faithless elector
faithlessly
faithlessness
interfaithless
fake
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /feɪ̯k/
enpr: fāk
rhymes: -eɪk
homophone: PHEIC
Forms: form: faker
form: more fake
form: fakest
form: most fake
Etymology: The origin is not known with certainty, although first attested in 1775 C.E. in British criminals' slang. It is probably from feak, feague (“to give a better appearance through artificial means, spruce up, embellish”), itself from German Low German fegen, from Middle Low German vēgen, from Old Saxon fegōn, from Proto-West Germanic *fegōn (“to clean up, polish”).
Akin to Dutch veeg (“a swipe”), Dutch vegen (“to sweep, wipe”); German fegen (“to sweep, to polish”). Compare also Old English fācn (“deceit, fraud”). Perhaps related also to Old Norse fjúka (“to fade, vanquish, disappear”), Old Norse feikn (“strange, scary, unnatural”).
Senses: examples: text: Which fur coat looks fake?
text: Seeing Rossano Brazzi play an aristocratic White Russian, standing in the fakest snow that wartime supplies could buy, may be the most peculiar twist of all in the curious story of how Ayn Rand's autobiographical first novel came to the screen.
ref: 1988 November 25, Caryn James, “Ayn Rand Adaptation By Italian”, in The New York Times:
text: The truth panic had the unwelcome side-effect of emboldening those it sought to oppose. “Fake” was one of Trump’s favourite slap-downs, especially to news outlets that reported unwelcome facts about him and his associates. A booming Maga media further amplified the president’s lies and denials.
ref: 2025 October 2, William Davies, “A critique of pure stupidity: understanding Trump 2.0”, in The Guardian:
antonyms: authentic
genuine
glosses: Not real; false, fraudulent.
qualifier: Of people
glosses: Insincere
Synonyms: word: artificial
word: bad
word: bogus
word: bollocks
word: concocted
word: counterfeit
word: ersatz
word: fabricated
word: false
word: falsified
word: fake
word: faux
word: feigned
word: forged
word: fraudulent
word: illegitimate
word: ingenuine
word: mock
word: phoney
word: phony-baloney
word: phony
word: phony as a three-dollar bill
word: pseudo
word: put-up
word: said to be
word: sham
word: spurious
word: synthetic
word: unauthentic
word: unreal
word: trumped-up
Hyponyms: word: charade
word: facade
word: façade
Derived terms: facon
fake and gay
fake-ass
fakeaway
fake-bake
fakebit
fake book
Fakebook
fakecel
fakeclaim
fake fan
fake-fan
fakefan
fakeful
fakegasm
fake geek girl
fakehood
fakeitude
fakelore
fakely
fakemail
fakement
Fakémon
fakeness
fake news
fakepreneur
fake Shemp
fakeship
fakester
Fakestine
Fakestinian
fakestream
fake-tanned
fake the funk
Faketoshi
fakey
fakie
faky
finstagram
flog
foob
for fake
frass
French fake
genuine fake
head fake
Jafaican
ogle fake
ogle fake riah
ogle riah fake
outfake
pump fake
pump-fake
semifake
superfake
Related terms: word: cry wolf
word: pretext
word: decoy
word: imitate
word: lie
fake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /feɪ̯k/
enpr: fāk
rhymes: -eɪk
homophone: PHEIC
Forms: form: fakes
Etymology: The origin is not known with certainty, although first attested in 1775 C.E. in British criminals' slang. It is probably from feak, feague (“to give a better appearance through artificial means, spruce up, embellish”), itself from German Low German fegen, from Middle Low German vēgen, from Old Saxon fegōn, from Proto-West Germanic *fegōn (“to clean up, polish”).
Akin to Dutch veeg (“a swipe”), Dutch vegen (“to sweep, wipe”); German fegen (“to sweep, to polish”). Compare also Old English fācn (“deceit, fraud”). Perhaps related also to Old Norse fjúka (“to fade, vanquish, disappear”), Old Norse feikn (“strange, scary, unnatural”).
Senses: examples: text: I suspect this passport is a fake.
text: Among other interesting and weighty opinions, which were in general agreement with our contentions, was one by Mr. H. A. Staddon of Goodmayes, a gentleman who had made a particular hobby of fakes in photography. His report is too long and too technical for inclusion, but, under the various headings of composition, dress, development, density, lighting, poise, texture, plate, atmosphere, focus, halation, he goes very completely into the evidence, coming to the final conclusion that when tried by all these tests the chances are not less than 80 per cent. in favour of authenticity.
ref: 1922, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Coming of the Fairies:
glosses: Something which is not genuine, or is presented fraudulently.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A move meant to deceive an opposing player, used for gaining advantage for example when dribbling an opponent.
glosses: A trick; a swindle
Synonyms: sense: soccer move
word: feint
sense: ice hockey move
word: deke
Derived terms: antifake
deepfake
fakeaway
semifake
superfake
fake
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /feɪ̯k/
enpr: fāk
rhymes: -eɪk
homophone: PHEIC
Forms: form: fakes
form: faking
form: faked
form: faked
Etymology: The origin is not known with certainty, although first attested in 1775 C.E. in British criminals' slang. It is probably from feak, feague (“to give a better appearance through artificial means, spruce up, embellish”), itself from German Low German fegen, from Middle Low German vēgen, from Old Saxon fegōn, from Proto-West Germanic *fegōn (“to clean up, polish”).
Akin to Dutch veeg (“a swipe”), Dutch vegen (“to sweep, wipe”); German fegen (“to sweep, to polish”). Compare also Old English fācn (“deceit, fraud”). Perhaps related also to Old Norse fjúka (“to fade, vanquish, disappear”), Old Norse feikn (“strange, scary, unnatural”).
Senses: glosses: To make a counterfeit, to counterfeit, to forge, to falsify.
examples: text: to fake a marriage
text: to fake happiness
text: to fake a smile
text: "She constantly faked being sick, and perhaps mistakenly, I indulged her more than I should have, pretending I couldn't tell. But I AM a teacher myself, so it's kind of hard to just let this slide."
ref: 2013, Jocelyn Samara D., Rain, volume 1, →ISBN, page 193:
glosses: To make a false display of, to affect, to feign, to simulate.
glosses: To cheat; to swindle; to steal; to rob.
examples: text: He had a hundred similar tricks, but I never knew him fake a horse, or sell one as sound if it was not.
ref: 1944, George Henderson, The Farming Ladder:
glosses: To modify fraudulently, so as to make an object appear better or other than it really is
examples: text: Occasionally the opportunity arises to stand up and "fake" a jazz standard.
ref: 1994, ITA Journal, volume 22, page 20:
text: In the face of this print music culture, 'faking' was the ability—at once respected and disrespected—to improvise a song (or a part in an arrangement) without reading the notation.
ref: Denning, cited in 2020, Matt Brennan, Kick It: A Social History of the Drum Kit (page 110)
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: To improvise, in jazz.
Synonyms: sense: modify fraudulently
word: adulterate
sense: make a false display
word: pass off
sense: make a false display
word: pose
Derived terms: fakeable
fake bad
fake book
fake good
fake it
fake it till one makes it
fake it until one makes it
fake out
faker
fakery
fake the fatcha
fake up
outfake
unfaked
fake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /feɪ̯k/
enpr: fāk
rhymes: -eɪk
homophone: PHEIC
Forms: form: fakes
Etymology: From Middle English faken (“to coil a rope”).
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: One of the circles or windings of a cable or hawser, as it lies in a coil; a single turn or coil.
fake
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /feɪ̯k/
enpr: fāk
rhymes: -eɪk
homophone: PHEIC
Forms: form: fakes
form: faking
form: faked
form: faked
Etymology: From Middle English faken (“to coil a rope”).
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: To coil (a rope, line, or hawser), by winding alternately in opposite directions, in layers usually of zigzag or figure of eight form, to prevent twisting when running out.
fallacy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfæl.ə.si/
ipa: /ˈfɛl.ə.si/
Forms: form: fallacies
Etymology: From Middle English fallaci, fallace, fallas, from Old French fallace, from Latin fallācia (“deception, deceit”), from fallāx (“deceptive, deceitful”), from fallere (“to deceive”).
Senses: examples: text: Mr Jones expressed great gratitude to the lady for the kind intentions towards him which she had expressed, and indeed testified, by this proposal; but, besides intimating some diffidence of success from the lady’s knowledge of his love to her niece, which had not been her case in regard to Mr Fitzpatrick, he said, he was afraid Miss Western would never agree to an imposition of this kind, as well from her utter detestation of all fallacy as from her avowed duty to her aunt.
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC:
text: I no longer believe in happiness, because I see the fallacy of my first belief; and the examination which that induced, has shewn me the fallacy of all. Shew me a heart without its hidden wound.
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, pages 108–109:
synonyms: deception
deceitfulness
glosses: Deceptive or false appearance; that which misleads the eye or the mind.
examples: text: Baldridge also showed the "one molecule of blood," usually held to be the stimulus for attracting sharks, to be another common fallacy, since a molecule of blood does not exist.
ref: 1983, Richard Ellis, The Book of Sharks, Knopf, →ISBN, page 163:
topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
synonyms: word: logical fallacy
word: incorrect argument
word: misargument
word: non-argument
word: pseudoargument
hyponyms: formal fallacy
informal fallacy
glosses: An argument, or apparent argument, which professes to be decisive of the matter at issue, while in reality it is not; a specious argument.
Derived terms: apex fallacy
association fallacy
bandwagon fallacy
base rate fallacy
black swan fallacy
conceptual fallacy
conjunction fallacy
counterfallacy
ethnocentric fallacy
etymological fallacy
fallacious
fallacy fallacy
fallacy of composition
formal fallacy
gambler's fallacy
genetic fallacy
Goomba fallacy
goomba fallacy
informal fallacy
intensional fallacy
intentional fallacy
just-world fallacy
logical fallacy
ludic fallacy
masked man fallacy
masked-man fallacy
Monte Carlo fallacy
naturalistic fallacy
nirvana fallacy
no true Scotsman fallacy
pathetic fallacy
phallusy
sunk costs fallacy
Texas sharpshooter fallacy
toupée fallacy
toupee fallacy
Related terms: fail
fallible
sophism
falsification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: falsifications
Etymology: From false + -ification.
Senses: examples: text: The main Christian doctrines and festivals, besides a great mass of affiliated legend and ceremonial, are really quite directly derived from, and related to, preceding Nature worships; and it has only been by a good deal of deliberate mystification and falsification that this derivation has been kept out of sight.
ref: 1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., published 1921, page 19:
glosses: The act of falsifying, or making false; a counterfeiting; the giving to a thing an appearance of something which it is not.
glosses: A knowingly false statement or wilful misrepresentation.
glosses: The act of showing an item of charge in an account to be wrong.
Derived terms: falsificationism
falsificationist
Related terms: falsify
fanfare
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfænfɛə/
ipa: /ˈfænfɛɹ/
ipa: [ˈfɛənfɛɹ]
ipa: /ˈfænfeə/
Forms: form: fanfares
Etymology: Borrowed from French fanfare.
Senses: examples: text: They played a short fanfare to announce the arrival of the king.
text: This new locomotive was turned out of Doncaster works in May, 1934, to a mighty fanfare of trumpets.
ref: 1942 February, O. S. Nock, “The Locomotives of Sir Nigel Gresley: Part VII”, in Railway Magazine, page 44:
glosses: A flourish of trumpets or horns as to announce; a short and lively air performed on hunting horns during the chase.
examples: text: The town opened the new library with fanfare and a speech from the mayor.
text: I have arrived to catch the 0830 TfW service to Crewe, worked by a tatty and unrefurbished 175114. As if ashamed of its appearance, it slinks into Platform 2 (instead of Platform 1, where it was expected). No announcement had been made, and we leave without any fanfare.
ref: 2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, in Rail, page 67:
text: Fans relished the traditional FA Cup fanfare from the Coldstream Guards and the hymn Abide With Me before throwing themselves wholeheartedly into an experience they have been largely deprived of since the first coronavirus lockdown began in March 2020.
ref: 2021 May 15, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 0-1 Leicester”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: A show of ceremony or celebration.
Derived terms: fanfarelike
farce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɑːs/
enpr: färs
ipa: /fɑɹs/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)s
Forms: form: farces
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French farce (“farce (style of humor); stuffing”) (in the latter sense, via Middle English fars, farsse), from Old French farse, from Medieval Latin farsa, from the feminine perfect passive participle of Latin farciō (“to stuff”). The theatre sense alludes to the pleasant and varied character of certain stuffed food items. Doublet of farse.
Senses: glosses: A style of humor marked by broad improbabilities with little regard to regularity or method.
examples: text: The farce that we saw last night had us laughing and shaking our heads at the same time.
text: Thus, when he drew up instructions in lawyer language[…]; his clerks […] understood him very well. If he had written a love letter, or a farce, or a ballade, or a story, no one, either clerks, or friends, or compositors, would have understood anything but a word here and a word there.
ref: 1892, Walter Besant, “Prologue: Who is Edmund Gray?”, in The Ivory Gate […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC:
glosses: A motion picture or play featuring this style of humor.
examples: text: The first month of labor negotiations was a farce.
text: The first match in the magnificent new national stadium was a Euro 2012 qualifier between Romania and France that soon descended into farce as the pitch cut up and players struggled to maintain their footing. Amorebieta at times seemed to be paying homage to that game, but nobody else seemed to have a problem; it was just that Falcao was far better than him.
ref: 2012 May 9, Jonathan Wilson, “Europa League: Radamel Falcao's Atlético Madrid rout Athletic Bilbao”, in the Guardian:
glosses: A situation abounding with ludicrous incidents.
examples: text: The United States, he declared, was "a farce controlled by dirty, hook-nosed, circumcised Jew bastards."
ref: 2019, Stephanie Butnick, Liel Leibovitz, Mark Oppenheimer, The Newish Jewish Encyclopedia - From Abraham to Zabar's and Everything in Between:
glosses: A ridiculous or empty show.
glosses: An elaborate lie.
topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: Forcemeat, stuffing.
Hypernyms: comedy
Coordinate terms: tragedy
Derived terms: farcelike
farcement
farceness
farcical
farcify
farcilite
farcist
melofarce
tragifarce
workfarce
Related terms: far breton
farse
travesty
farce
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɑːs/
enpr: färs
ipa: /fɑɹs/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)s
Forms: form: farces
form: farcing
form: farced
form: farced
Etymology: From Middle English farcen, from Old French farsir, farcir, from Latin farciō (“to cram, stuff”). Doublet of farse.
Senses: examples: text: The lunch […] consisted […] of […] lobster mayonnaise, cold game sausages, an immense veal and ham pie farced with eggs, truffles, and numberless delicious flavours; besides kickshaws, creams and sweetmeats.
ref: 1923, Walter de la Mare, Seaton's Aunt:
glosses: To stuff with forcemeat or other food items.
examples: text: The first principles of religion should not be farced with school points and private tenets.
ref: 1678, Robert Sanderson, Pax Ecclesiae:
glosses: To fill full; to stuff.
examples: text: [I]f thou would’ſt farce thy leane Ribs with it [pork] too, they would not (like ragged Lathes) rub out ſo many Dublets as they do: […]
ref: 1599 (first performance), B. I. [i.e., Ben Jonson], The Comicall Satyre of Euery Man out of His Humor. […], London: […] [Adam Islip] for William Holme, […], published 1600, →OCLC, Act V, scene iii, signature [P iiij], recto:
glosses: To make fat.
examples: text: farcing his letter with fustian
ref: 1615, George Sandys, “(please specify the page)”, in The Relation of a Iourney Begun An: Dom: 1610. […], London: […] [Richard Field] for W. Barrett, →OCLC:
glosses: To swell out; to render pompous.
glosses: Alternative form of farse (“to insert vernacular paraphrases into (a Latin liturgy)”).
farewell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɛəˈwɛl/
ipa: /fɛɚˈwɛl/
ipa: /feːˈwel/
note: without the cheer–chair merger
ipa: /ˈfeəˈwel/
note: New Zealand, cheer–chair merger
ipa: /ˈfiəˈwel/
ipa: /ˈfeɹˈwɛl/
note: Lancashire, fair–fur merger
ipa: /ˈfɜː(ɹ)ˈwɛl/
ipa: /fɑːɹˈwɛl/
ipa: /fæɹˈwɛl/
rhymes: -ɛl
Forms: form: farewells
form: farewel
Etymology: From Middle English farewel, from fare wel! (and the variants with the personal pronoun "fare ye well" and "fare you well" used in the Renaissance), an imperative expression, possibly further derived from Old English *far wel!, equivalent to fare (“to fare, travel, journey”) + well. Compare Scots farewele, fairweill (“farewell”), Saterland Frisian Foarwäil (“farewell”), West Frisian farwol (“farewell”), German Fahrwol, Fahrwohl,
East Frisian forwal,
Dutch vaarwel (“farewell (sadly)”), Danish farvel (“farewell”), Norwegian farvel (“farewell”), Swedish farväl (“farewell”), Faroese farvæl (“goodbye”), Icelandic far vel (“farewell”). The extensive list of cognates suggests a postulated ultimate Proto-Germanic phrase of origin, possibly something akin to *far wela.
Senses: examples: text: He bid farewell to all of his fans.
text: The departure was not unduly prolonged.[…]Within the door Mrs. Spoker hastily imparted to Mrs. Love a few final sentiments on the subject of Divine Intention in the disposition of buckets; farewells and last commiserations; a deep, guttural instigation to the horse; and the wheels of the waggonette crunched heavily away into obscurity.
ref: 1921, Ben Travers, chapter 5, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC:
text: The last train—a three-coach A.E.C. unit—from Belfast to Crumlin and back, was bade farewell with fog signals as it carried a capacity crowd of last-trip travellers.
ref: 1960 November, L. Hyland, “The Irish Scene”, in Trains Illustrated, page 691:
synonyms: goodbye
adieu
vale
glosses: A wish of happiness or safety at parting, especially a permanent departure.
examples: text: See how the morning opes her golden gates, And takes her farewell of the glorious sun.
ref: c. 1591–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:
text: Before I take my farewell of the subject.
ref: September 14, 1710, Joseph Addison, The Examiner No. 1
glosses: A departure; the act of leaving.
farewell
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɛəˈwɛl/
ipa: /fɛɚˈwɛl/
ipa: /feːˈwel/
note: without the cheer–chair merger
ipa: /ˈfeəˈwel/
note: New Zealand, cheer–chair merger
ipa: /ˈfiəˈwel/
ipa: /ˈfeɹˈwɛl/
note: Lancashire, fair–fur merger
ipa: /ˈfɜː(ɹ)ˈwɛl/
ipa: /fɑːɹˈwɛl/
ipa: /fæɹˈwɛl/
rhymes: -ɛl
Forms: form: farewel
Etymology: From Middle English farewel, from fare wel! (and the variants with the personal pronoun "fare ye well" and "fare you well" used in the Renaissance), an imperative expression, possibly further derived from Old English *far wel!, equivalent to fare (“to fare, travel, journey”) + well. Compare Scots farewele, fairweill (“farewell”), Saterland Frisian Foarwäil (“farewell”), West Frisian farwol (“farewell”), German Fahrwol, Fahrwohl,
East Frisian forwal,
Dutch vaarwel (“farewell (sadly)”), Danish farvel (“farewell”), Norwegian farvel (“farewell”), Swedish farväl (“farewell”), Faroese farvæl (“goodbye”), Icelandic far vel (“farewell”). The extensive list of cognates suggests a postulated ultimate Proto-Germanic phrase of origin, possibly something akin to *far wela.
Senses: examples: text: a farewell discourse;  the band's farewell tour
text: “I'm through with all pawn-games,” I laughed. “Come, let us have a game of lansquenet. Either I will take a farewell fall out of you or you will have your sevenfold revenge”.
ref: 1908, W[illiam] B[lair] M[orton] Ferguson, chapter I, in Zollenstein, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:
text: But with the first gray light of dawn he arose; and before drawing the white sheet veilingly over, he took a last farewell look at that angel face.
ref: 1858, John Saunders, Westland Marston, The National Magazine, volume 3, page 133:
glosses: Parting, valedictory, final.
farewell
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɛəˈwɛl/
ipa: /fɛɚˈwɛl/
ipa: /feːˈwel/
note: without the cheer–chair merger
ipa: /ˈfeəˈwel/
note: New Zealand, cheer–chair merger
ipa: /ˈfiəˈwel/
ipa: /ˈfeɹˈwɛl/
note: Lancashire, fair–fur merger
ipa: /ˈfɜː(ɹ)ˈwɛl/
ipa: /fɑːɹˈwɛl/
ipa: /fæɹˈwɛl/
rhymes: -ɛl
Forms: form: farewel
Etymology: From Middle English farewel, from fare wel! (and the variants with the personal pronoun "fare ye well" and "fare you well" used in the Renaissance), an imperative expression, possibly further derived from Old English *far wel!, equivalent to fare (“to fare, travel, journey”) + well. Compare Scots farewele, fairweill (“farewell”), Saterland Frisian Foarwäil (“farewell”), West Frisian farwol (“farewell”), German Fahrwol, Fahrwohl,
East Frisian forwal,
Dutch vaarwel (“farewell (sadly)”), Danish farvel (“farewell”), Norwegian farvel (“farewell”), Swedish farväl (“farewell”), Faroese farvæl (“goodbye”), Icelandic far vel (“farewell”). The extensive list of cognates suggests a postulated ultimate Proto-Germanic phrase of origin, possibly something akin to *far wela.
Senses: examples: text: He said "Farewell!" and left.
text: So farewell hope, and with hope, farewell fear.
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book IV”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
text: Fareweel, my rhyme-compoſing billie!
Your native ſoil was right ill-willie;
But may ye flouriſh like a lily,
Now bonilie!
I'll toaſt ye in my hindmoſt gillie,
Tho' owre the Sea!
ref: 1786 July 31, Robert Burns, “On a Scotch Bard Gone to the West Indies”, in Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect, Kilmarnock, East Ayrshire: Printed by John Wilson, →OCLC; reprinted Kilmarnock: James McKie, March 1867, →OCLC, page 184:
glosses: Goodbye; vale.
farewell
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɛəˈwɛl/
ipa: /fɛɚˈwɛl/
ipa: /feːˈwel/
note: without the cheer–chair merger
ipa: /ˈfeəˈwel/
note: New Zealand, cheer–chair merger
ipa: /ˈfiəˈwel/
ipa: /ˈfeɹˈwɛl/
note: Lancashire, fair–fur merger
ipa: /ˈfɜː(ɹ)ˈwɛl/
ipa: /fɑːɹˈwɛl/
ipa: /fæɹˈwɛl/
rhymes: -ɛl
Forms: form: farewells
form: farewelling
form: farewelled
form: farewelled
form: farewel
Etymology: From Middle English farewel, from fare wel! (and the variants with the personal pronoun "fare ye well" and "fare you well" used in the Renaissance), an imperative expression, possibly further derived from Old English *far wel!, equivalent to fare (“to fare, travel, journey”) + well. Compare Scots farewele, fairweill (“farewell”), Saterland Frisian Foarwäil (“farewell”), West Frisian farwol (“farewell”), German Fahrwol, Fahrwohl,
East Frisian forwal,
Dutch vaarwel (“farewell (sadly)”), Danish farvel (“farewell”), Norwegian farvel (“farewell”), Swedish farväl (“farewell”), Faroese farvæl (“goodbye”), Icelandic far vel (“farewell”). The extensive list of cognates suggests a postulated ultimate Proto-Germanic phrase of origin, possibly something akin to *far wela.
Senses: examples: text: He farewelled viewers with a warm sign-off after each bulletin: "May your news be good news, and goodnight."
ref: 2009 February 9, Neil Wilson and staff writers, “Tributes for newsman Brian Naylor and wife, killed in fires”, in Herald Sun, archived from the original on 11 Feb 2009:
glosses: To bid farewell or say goodbye.
Derived terms: fareweller
unfarewelled
Cape Farewell
farewell party
Farewell Rock
Farewell Sermon
farewell-summer
farewell-to-spring
fascia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfæʃə/
ipa: /ˈfæʃjə/
ipa: /ˈfæʃi.ə/
ipa: /ˈfeɪʃə/
ipa: /ˈfeɪʃjə/
ipa: /ˈfeɪʃi.ə/
rhymes: -æʃə
Forms: form: fascias
form: fasciae
form: fasciæ
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin fascia (“a band, bandage, swathe”). Related to fascēs (“bundle of rods containing an axe with the blade projecting”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰask- (“bundle, band”). Cognate with fajita, fess, and fascism.
Senses: topics: architecture
synonyms: frieze
glosses: A wide band of material covering the ends of roof rafters, sometimes supporting a gutter in steep-slope roofing, but typically it is a border or trim in low-slope roofing.
synonyms: case
glosses: A face or front cover of an appliance, especially of a mobile phone.
synonyms: dashboard
glosses: A dashboard.
topics: architecture
glosses: A flat band or broad fillet; especially, one of the three bands that make up the architrave, in the Ionic order.
glosses: A broad well-defined band of color.
glosses: A band, sash, or fillet; especially, in surgery, a bandage or roller.
topics: ecclesiastical
fashion
lifestyle
religion
synonyms: sash
glosses: A sash worn by certain members of the Catholic and Anglican churches.
examples: text: The deepest layer of cervical fascia consists of two main subdivisions: the alar and prevertebral fasciae.
ref: 2006, Dennis E. McDonnell, Steven J. Harrison, “10: Retropharyngeal Approach to the Occipitocervical Junction”, in Richard G. Fessler, Laligam N. Sekhar, editors, Atlas of Neurosurgical Techniques: Spine and Peripheral Nerves, Thieme Medical Publishers, page 89:
text: Close-up of the fascia surrounding a muscle in an unembalmed cadaver.
ref: 2017, David Lesondak, Fascia: What it is and Why it Matters, Handspring Publishing, page 3, Figure 1.1
text: 2017, Andrea Pasini, Antonio Stecco, Carla Stecco, 19: Fascial Anatomy of the Viscera, Torsten Liem, Paolo Tozzi, Anthony Chila (editors), Fascia in the Osteopathic Field, Handspring Publishing, page 173,
This is evidence that the insertional fasciae are the ones that provide the connections between internal fasciae and muscular fascia, and between the different organs. The same pattern can be applied to the fasciae that surround the glands.
text: The superficial fascia surrounds the body and includes subcutaneous fat; the deep fascia surrounds the musculoskeletal system; the meningeal fascia surrounds the nervous system; the visceral fascia surrounds body cavities and organs.
ref: 2018 November 8, Dr. Melina Jampolis, “The real science behind fascia ailments”, in CNN:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The layer of loose tissue, often containing fat, immediately beneath the skin; the stronger layer of connective tissue covering and investing muscles and organs; an aponeurosis.
glosses: The signboard above a shop or other location open to the public.
Derived terms: Abernethy's fascia
Buck's fascia
fascia adherens
fascia bulbi
fascial
fascia lata
fascialike
fasciate
fasciectomy
fasciitis
myofascia
neurofascia
plantar fascia
superficial fascia
transversalis fascia
fascination
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fæsɪˈneɪʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: fascinations
Etymology: From Latin fascinare ("to bewitch"), possibly from Ancient Greek βασκαίνιεν (baskaínien, “to speak ill of; to curse”). Morphologically fascinate + -ion.
Senses: examples: text: Little disappointed, then, she turned attention to "Chat of the Social World," gossip which exercised potent fascination upon the girl's intelligence.
ref: 1914 November, Louis Joseph Vance, “An Outsider […]”, in Munsey’s Magazine, volume LIII, number II, New York, N.Y.: The Frank A[ndrew] Munsey Company, […], published 1915, →OCLC, chapter I (Anarchy), page 373, column 2:
synonyms: enchantment
witchcraft
glosses: The act of bewitching, or enchanting
examples: text: To my fascination, the skies turned all kinds of colours.
text: Sliding down the shaft he lay still, the spear jutting above him its full length, like a horrible stalk growing out of his back.
The girl stared down at him in morbid fascination, until Khemsa took her arm and led her through the gate.
ref: 1934, Robert Ervin Howard, The People of the Black Circle:
text: But the compensations are many: changing scenes, long days out of doors, freedom from the bondage of conventional life, and above all, the fascination of living among peoples of primitive simplicity and yet of a civilization so ancient that it makes all that is oldest in the West seem raw and crude and unfinished.
ref: 1913, Elizabeth Kimball Kendall, A Wayfarer in China:
glosses: The state or condition of being fascinated.
examples: text: Life after death had always been a great fascination to him.
text: Though more thoughtful than Madame de Mercœur, yet it asked far more knowledge of society—that wilderness of small intricacies—for her to penetrate into the motives of those who seemed so suddenly struck with her fascination; but she was too clear-headed to be deceived, and set it all down under one general belief in caprice.
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXI, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 244:
glosses: Something which fascinates.
Derived terms: dread fascination
fatal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfeɪ.təl/
ipa: [ˈfeɪ.ɾɫ̩]
rhymes: -eɪtəl
Forms: form: fatals
Etymology: From Middle French fatal, from Latin fātālis (“fatal”).
Senses: examples: text: For this same period there have been four fatals and 44 nonfatals in gassy mines.
ref: 1969, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education, Hearings, page 90:
text: The best accident rate in general aviation is in corporate/executive flying at 0.17 per 100000 hours for fatals and .50 for total accidents.
ref: 1999 April, Flying Magazine, volume 126, number 4, page 15:
glosses: A fatality; an event that leads to death.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A fatal error; a failure that causes a program to terminate.
fatalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fatalisms
Etymology: From fatal + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Sure, maybe. We know — have long known — that romanticism and fatalism are dialectical lovers.
ref: 2025 July 21, Jean Garnett, “The Trouble With Wanting Men”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 21 Jul 2025:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
synonyms: determinism
kismet
predestination
predeterminism
antonyms: free will
freedom
indeterminism
qualifier: metaphysics
glosses: The doctrine that all events are subject to fate or inevitable necessity, or determined in advance in such a way that human beings cannot alter them.
Related terms: word: amor fati
word: fatality
word: fate
alt: Compatibilism
word: compatibilism
alt: Incompatibilism
word: incompatibilism
fatalist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfeɪtəlɪst/
Forms: form: fatalists
Etymology: From fatal + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: ....it is that, with every day, my love for you increases—though that would seem to be almost an impossibility. Why should I not become a fatalist? Remember how, on the third day that we ascended the Shlangenberg, I was moved to whisper in your ear: 'Say but the word, and I will leap into the abyss.' Had you said it, I should have leapt. Do you not believe me?"
ref: 1867, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, chapter V, in The Gambler, translated by C. J. Hogarth^(https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Gambler_(1867)/V):
text: “Maybe the problem is that you’re a romantic,” says my former lover-slash-friend-slash-male-sensitivity-reader. “And maybe so are the other fatalists.”
ref: 2025 July 21, Jean Garnett, “The Trouble With Wanting Men”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 21 Jul 2025:
glosses: One who maintains that all things happen by inevitable necessity; a person who believes in fatalism.
Related terms: fatalism
fatalistic
fatalistically
fatality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /feɪˈtælɪti/
ipa: [feɪ̯ˈtʰælɪɾi]
ipa: /fə-/
ipa: /fəˈtælətɪ/
ipa: /fəˈtælɪtɪ/
ipa: /feɪ-/
rhymes: -ælɪti
Forms: form: fatalities
Etymology: From French fatalité. equivalent to fatal + -ity.
Senses: synonyms: word: inevitability
word: banker
word: cert
word: certainty
word: certitude
word: cinch
word: dead cert
word: fatality
word: inevitability
word: racing certainty
word: sure thing
word: fair bet
word: good bet
word: safe bet
word: sure bet
glosses: The state proceeding from destiny; invincible necessity, superior to, and independent of, free and rational control.
synonyms: mortality
glosses: Tendency to death, destruction or danger, as if by decree of fate.
examples: text: What can I say, or think of this most terrible of fatalities?
ref: 1851, Wilkie Collins, The Twin Sisters:
synonyms: word: destiny
word: doom
word: chance
word: destin
word: destiny
word: doom
word: fatality
word: fate
word: foredoom
word: foreordination
word: fortune
word: kismet
word: lot
word: orlay
word: portion
word: predestination
word: predestiny
word: preordination
word: qadar
word: weird
word: wyrd
glosses: That which is decreed by fate or which is fatal; a fatal event.
synonyms: word: demise
word: the big sleep
word: death
word: celestial transfer
word: decease
word: decomposition
word: defunction
word: dematerialization
word: demise
word: dirt nap
word: doom
word: exit
word: expiration
word: fatality
word: liquidation
word: mortality
word: quietus
word: repose
word: sleep of the just
word: sunset
word: the big sleep
word: crash
word: downfall
word: fall
word: (the) bane
word: (the) end
glosses: Death.
examples: text: the whole thing felt like being in a near traffic fatality avoided by inches and later not being able to think of the whole thing lest you begin shaking...
ref: 2011, David Foster Wallace, The Pale King, page 13:
glosses: An accident that causes death.
glosses: A person killed.
examples: text: My first enchantment with computers came when I was about six years old, in Montreal in the early nineties, playing Mortal Kombat with my oldest brother. He told me about some “fatalities”—gruesome, witty ways of killing your opponent.
ref: 2023 November 13, James Somers, “A Coder Considers the Waning Days of the Craft”, in The New Yorker, →ISSN:
topics: video-games
glosses: A move used to deliver a coup de grâce to a defeated opponent.
Coordinate terms: lethality
Derived terms: fatality rate
nonfatality
fauna
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɔːnə/
rhymes: -ɔːnə
homophone: fawner (non-rhotic)
Forms: form: faunae
form: faunas
form: faunæ
Etymology: Borrowed from New Latin fauna, from Latin Fauna, sister of Faunus (“god of forests and herdsmen”); akin to Ancient Greek θαῦνον (thaûnon, “wild animal, beast”), θώς (thṓs, “jackal, wild dog; panther”), Phrygian δάος (dáos, “wolf”).
Senses: examples: text: the flora and fauna
text: Japanese waters also support a rich and diverse shark fauna, including the smallest known shark Squaliolus laticaudus, and the bizarre goblin shark, Mitsukurina owstoni.
ref: 1983, Richard Ellis, The Book of Sharks, Knopf, →ISBN, page 199:
glosses: Animals considered as a group; especially those of a particular country, region, time.
glosses: A book, cataloguing the animals of a country.
Hypernyms: biota
Coordinate terms: flora
funga
Derived terms: aerofauna
aquafauna
archaeofauna
avifauna
chronofauna
coprofauna
cryptofauna
echinofauna
endofauna
endolithofauna
epifauna
faunal
faunic
faunist
faunistic
faunivore
faunivorous
faunology
herpetofauna
ichnofauna
ichthyofauna
infauna
limnofauna
macrofauna
malacofauna
mastofauna
megafauna
meiofauna
mesofauna
microfauna
myrmecofauna
necrofauna
nematofauna
palaeofauna
paleofauna
stygofauna
thanatofauna
fearless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɪɹləs/
ipa: /ˈfɪələs/
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)ləs
Forms: form: more fearless
form: most fearless
Etymology: From fear + -less.
Senses: examples: text: "Our fearless reporter"... I'm not fearless, John. I don't like this.
ref: 1990, House of Cards, season 1, episode 3:
text: England's wicket-keeper in the 50s, he was fearless about standing on the stumps to fastish bowlers[.]
ref: 1990, Ashes: Battles and Bellylaughs, Byron Bay: Swan Publishing, page 207:
glosses: Without fear.
Synonyms: frightless
brave
courageous
Derived terms: fearlessness
fearlessly
Related terms: unafraid
intrepid
courageous
feign
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /feɪn/
rhymes: -eɪn
homophone: fane
homophone: foehn
homophone: fain stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Forms: form: feigns
form: feigning
form: feigned
form: feigned
Etymology: From Middle English feynen, feinen, borrowed from Old French feindre (“to pretend”), from Latin fingere (“to form, shape, invent”). Compare French feignant (present participle of feindre, literally “feigning”). Also compare feint and fiction.
Senses: examples: text: The pupil feigned sickness on the day of his exam.
text: They feigned her signature on the cheque.
text: [T]he truest poetry is the most
feigning, and lovers are given to poetry, and what
they swear in poetry may be said as lovers they do
feign.
ref: 1559, William Shakespeare, As You Like It, III.iii.18-21:
text: She had not been much of a dissembler, until now her loneliness taught her to feign.
ref: 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 2, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:
glosses: To make a false show or pretence of; to counterfeit or simulate.
examples: text: He feigned that he had gone home at the appointed time.
text: Then I sent unto him, saying, There are no such things done as thou sayest, but thou feignest them out of thine own heart.
ref: 1511, King James Translators, Nehemiah 6:8
glosses: To imagine; to invent; to pretend to do something.
examples: text: Cahill was beaten far too easily for Miller's goal, although the striker deserves the credit for the way he controlled Alan Hutton's right-wing delivery, with his back to goal, feigned to his left then went the other way and pinged a splendid left-foot shot into Hart's bottom right-hand corner.
ref: 14 August 2013, Daniel Taylor, “Rickie Lambert's debut goal gives England victory over Scotland”, in The Guardian:
glosses: To make an action as if doing one thing, but actually doing another, for example to trick an opponent; to feint.
Synonyms: sense: represent by a false appearance
word: front
sense: represent by a false appearance
word: put on airs
word: deceive
Derived terms: feignable
feigned
feigner
feignful
unfeigned