fake

• IPA^(key): /feɪ̯k/, enPR: fāk

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• Rhymes: -eɪk
• Homophone: PHEIC

The origin is not known with certainty, although first attested in 1775 C.E. in British criminals' slang.[1] It is probably from feak, feague (“to give a better appearance through artificial means, spruce up, embellish”); 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”).

fake (comparative faker or more fake, superlative fakest or most fake)

1. Not real; false, fraudulent

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:fake

   Antonyms: authentic, genuine

   Which fur coat looks fake?

2. (of people) Insincere

• → Russian: фейк (fejk)
• → Turkish: feyk

fake (plural fakes)

1. Something which is not genuine, or is presented fraudulently.

   I suspect this passport is a fake.

2. (sports) A move meant to deceive an opposing player, used for gaining advantage for example when dribbling an opponent.
3. (archaic) A trick; a swindle

• (soccer move): feint
• (ice hockey move): deke

• → Japanese: フェイク (feiku)

fake (third-person singular simple present fakes, present participle faking, simple past and past participle faked)

1. (transitive) To make a counterfeit, to counterfeit, to forge, to falsify.
2. (transitive) To make a false display of, to affect, to feign, to simulate.

   to fake a marriage

   to fake happiness

   to fake a smile

3. (archaic) To cheat; to swindle; to steal; to rob.
4. (archaic) To modify fraudulently, so as to make an object appear better or other than it really is
   • 1944, George Henderson, The Farming Ladder:

     He had a hundred similar tricks, but I never knew him fake a horse, or sell one as sound if it was not.

5. (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.

• (modify fraudulently): adulterate
• (make a false display): pass off, pose

• → Cantonese: fake (“to fool; to deceive”)
• → French: faker

From Middle English faken (“to coil a rope”).

fake (plural fakes)

1. (nautical) One of the circles or windings of a cable or hawser, as it lies in a coil; a single turn or coil.

fake (third-person singular simple present fakes, present participle faking, simple past and past participle faked)

1. (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.

• fake on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “fake”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “fake”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

• feak

• IPA^(key): /faˈke/, [fʌˈkɛ]
• Hyphenation: fa‧ke

faké (frequentative fakamfaké, autobenefactive fakkaasité)

1. (transitive) open
2. (transitive) begin
3. (transitive) expose
4. (transitive) spread out

• E. M. Parker, R. J. Hayward (1985) “fake”, in An Afar-English-French dictionary (with Grammatical Notes in English), University of London, →ISBN
• Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)‎, Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis), page 275

From English fake.

fake

1. (Hong Kong Cantonese, transitive) to fool; to deceive (such as by presenting fake or ingenuine information)
   • For quotations using this term, see Citations:fake.

fake

1. inflection of faker:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Borrowed from English fake.

• IPA^(key): /fɛɪ̯k/, /feɪ̯k/, /feːk/
• (inflected forms) IPA^(key): /fɛɪ̯kə/, /feɪ̯kə/, /feːkə/

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• Homophone: Fake

fake (strong nominative masculine singular faker, not comparable)

1. (informal) fake, sham, counterfeit

In most cases corresponding to hypothetical English occurrences which would be deemed adjectives, the German is part of a compound with the noun Fake, and the existence of such an adjective is not widely accepted, however at least in the colloquial of the fashion scene, in reference to counterfeits, it is a fully declined adjective; cf. woke, and anywhere else where there is a heavy influx of English there may be at least predicative-only use.

• “fake” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon

fake

1. knife

Unadapted borrowing from English fake.

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈfejk(i)/

fake m (plural fakes)

1. (Internet slang) a fake account in a social network or other online community; a sock puppet

fake (invariable)

1. (Internet slang, of an image or video shared on the web) fake, manipulated, not genuine

   Synonym: falso

   Antonyms: genuíno, real, autêntico