Refine this word faster
Fake
Definitions
- 1 Not real; false, fraudulent.
"Which fur coat looks fake?"
- 2 Insincere
- 1 fraudulent; having a misleading appearance wordnet
- 2 not genuine or real; being an imitation of the genuine article wordnet
- 1 Something which is not genuine, or is presented fraudulently.
"I suspect this passport is a fake."
- 2 One of the circles or windings of a cable or hawser, as it lies in a coil; a single turn or coil.
- 3 (football) a deceptive move made by a football player wordnet
- 4 A move meant to deceive an opposing player, used for gaining advantage for example when dribbling an opponent.
- 5 something that is a counterfeit; not what it seems to be wordnet
Show 2 more definitions
- 6 A trick; a swindle archaic
- 7 a person who makes deceitful pretenses wordnet
- 1 To make a counterfeit, to counterfeit, to forge, to falsify. transitive
- 2 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.
- 3 speak insincerely or without regard for facts or truths wordnet
- 4 To make a false display of, to affect, to feign, to simulate. transitive
"to fake a marriage"
- 5 make a copy of with the intent to deceive wordnet
Show 4 more definitions
- 6 To cheat; to swindle; to steal; to rob. archaic
- 7 tamper, with the purpose of deception wordnet
- 8 To modify fraudulently, so as to make an object appear better or other than it really is archaic
"He had a hundred similar tricks, but I never knew him fake a horse, or sell one as sound if it was not."
- 9 To improvise, in jazz. ambitransitive
"Occasionally the opportunity arises to stand up and "fake" a jazz standard."
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”).
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”).
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”).
From Middle English faken (“to coil a rope”).
From Middle English faken (“to coil a rope”).
See also for "fake"
Next best steps
Mini challenge
Unscramble this word: fake