fake
Part of speech: adj
noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
hobbies
lifestyle
music
sports
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”).
Inflected forms:
form: faker
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: more fake
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: fakest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: most fake
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: fakes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: fakes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: faking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: faked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: faked
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Not real; false, fraudulent.
pos: adj
examples: Which fur coat looks fake?
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.
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.
gloss: Insincere
pos: adj
gloss: Something which is not genuine, or is presented fraudulently.
pos: noun
examples: I suspect this passport is a fake.
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.
gloss: A move meant to deceive an opposing player, used for gaining advantage for example when dribbling an opponent.
pos: noun
gloss: A trick; a swindle
pos: noun
tags: archaic
gloss: To make a counterfeit, to counterfeit, to forge, to falsify.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To make a false display of, to affect, to feign, to simulate.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to fake a marriage
to fake happiness
to fake a smile
"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."
gloss: To cheat; to swindle; to steal; to rob.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
gloss: To modify fraudulently, so as to make an object appear better or other than it really is
pos: verb
tags: archaic
examples: He had a hundred similar tricks, but I never knew him fake a horse, or sell one as sound if it was not.
gloss: To improvise, in jazz.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: Occasionally the opportunity arises to stand up and "fake" a jazz standard.
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.
Synonyms: artificial
bad
bogus
bollocks
concocted
counterfeit
ersatz
fabricated
false
falsified
fake
faux
feigned
forged
fraudulent
illegitimate
ingenuine
mock
phoney
phony-baloney
phony
phony as a three-dollar bill
pseudo
put-up
said to be
sham
spurious
synthetic
unauthentic
unreal
trumped-up
Antonyms: genuine
real
Related words: cry wolf
pretext
decoy
imitate
lie
Derived words: cheap fake
facon
fake and gay
fake-ass
fake-bake
fakebit
Fakebook
fakecel
fakeclaim
fake-fan
fake fan
fakefan
fakeful
fakegasm
fake geek girl
fakehood
fakeitude
fakelore
fakely
fakemail
fakement
Fakémon
fakeness
fake news
fake PNG
fakepreneur
fake Shemp
fakeship
fakester
Fakestine
Fakestinian
fakestream
fake-tanned
fake the funk
Faketoshi
fake tree
fakey
fakie
faky
finstagram
flog
foob
for fake
frass
French fake
genuine fake
head fake
Jafaican
ogle fake
ogle fake riah
ogle riah fake
pump-fake
pump fake
fakeaway
semifake
superfake
fake book
outfake
antifake
deepfake
fakeable
fake bad
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
unfaked
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