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fake
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fe?k/, enPR: f?k
- Rhymes: -e?k
Etymology 1
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”); akin to Dutch veeg (“a slap”), vegen (“to sweep, wipe”); German fegen (“to sweep, to polish”). Compare Old English f?cn, f?cen (“deceit, fraud”). Perhaps related to Old Norse fjúka (“fade, vanquish, disappear”), feikn (“strange, scary, unnatural”).
Adjective
fake (comparative faker or more fake, superlative fakest or most fake)
- Not real; false, fraudulent.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:fake
- Antonyms: authentic, genuine
- (of people) Insincere.
Derived terms
- fakeness
Translations
Noun
fake (plural fakes)
- Something which is not genuine, or is presented fraudulently.
- I suspect this passport is a fake.
- (sports) A move meant to deceive an opposing player, used for gaining advantage for example when dribbling an opponent.
- (archaic) A trick; a swindle.
Synonyms
- (soccer move): feint, (ice hockey move): deke
Translations
Verb
fake (third-person singular simple present fakes, present participle faking, simple past and past participle faked)
- (transitive) To make a counterfeit, to counterfeit, to forge, to falsify.
- (transitive) To make a false display of, to affect, to feign, to simulate.
- (archaic) To cheat; to swindle; to steal; to rob.
- (archaic) To modify fraudulently, so as to make an object appear better or other than it really is
- (music, transitive, intransitive) To improvise, in jazz.
- 1994, ITA Journal (volume 22, page 20)
- Occasionally the opportunity arises to stand up and "fake" a jazz standard.
- Denning, cited in 2020, Matt Brennan, Kick It: A Social History of the Drum Kit (page 110)
- 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.
- 1994, ITA Journal (volume 22, page 20)
Synonyms
- (modify fraudulently): adulterate
- (make a false display): pass off, pose
Derived terms
- fake it
- fake out
- faker
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English faken (“to coil a rope”).
Noun
fake (plural fakes)
- (nautical) One of the circles or windings of a cable or hawser, as it lies in a coil; a single turn or coil.
Translations
Verb
fake (third-person singular simple present fakes, present participle faking, simple past and past participle faked)
- (nautical) 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.
Translations
Further reading
- fake on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- fake at OneLook Dictionary Search
- fake in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
References
Anagrams
- feak
Afar
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /f??ke/
Verb
faké
- (transitive) open
Conjugation
References
- Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)?[1], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis), page 275
Kristang
Noun
fake
- knife
Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from English fake.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /?fejk(i)/
Noun
fake m (plural fakes)
- (Internet slang) a fake account in a social network or other online community; a sock puppet
Adjective
fake (invariable, comparable)
- (Internet slang, of an image or video shared on the web) fake, manipulated, not genuine
- Synonym: falso
- Antonyms: genuíno, real, autêntico
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prevarication
English
Etymology
From Anglo-Norman prevaricassion, Middle French prevarication, and their source, Latin praev?ric?ti? (“collusion with an opponent; transgression; deceit”), from the stem of praev?ricor.
Pronunciation
- (non-merged vowel) IPA(key): /p???væ???ke???n/
- (merged vowel) IPA(key): /p???væ???ke???n/
- Rhymes: -e???n
Noun
prevarication (countable and uncountable, plural prevarications)
- (now rare) Deviation from what is right or correct; transgression, perversion.
- Evasion of the truth; deceit, evasiveness.
- Prevarication became the order of the day in his government while truth was a stranger in those halls.
- 1779, William Cowper, Retirement
- The august tribunal of the skies, where no prevarication shall avail.
- 2012, The Economist, Oct 6th 2012, Charlemagne: Mysterious Mariano
- Mr Rajoy frustrates many with his prevarication over a fresh euro-zone bail-out, which now comes with a conditional promise from the European Central Bank (ECB) to help bring down Spain’s stifling borrowing costs.
- A secret abuse in the exercise of a public office.
- (law, historical, Ancient Rome) The collusion of an informer with the defendant, for the purpose of making a sham prosecution.
- (law) A false or deceitful seeming to undertake a thing for the purpose of defeating or destroying it.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Cowell to this entry?)
Related terms
- prevaricate
- prevaricator
Translations
See also
- lie
- equivocate
Further reading
- Prevarication in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
Middle French
Noun
prevarication f (plural prevarications)
- prevarication (deviation from what is right)
Descendants
- ? English: prevarication
- French: prévarication
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