fake

Significat (Anglès)

Adj

1. Not real; false, fraudulent
2. Insincere

Noun

1. Something which is not genuine, or is presented fraudulently.
2. A move meant to deceive an opposing player, used for gaining advantage for example when dribbling an opponent.
3. A trick; a swindle

Verb

1. To make a counterfeit, to counterfeit, to forge, to falsify.
2. To make a false display of, to affect, to feign, to simulate.
3. To cheat; to swindle; to steal; to rob.
4. To modify fraudulently, so as to make an object appear better or other than it really is
5. To improvise, in jazz.

Noun

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

Verb

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.

Sinònims

counterfeit

imitation

false

sham

forge

pretend

falsify

copy

phony

artificial

bogus

feign

simulate

fraud

imitate

impostor

forgery

spurious

forged

phoney

faux

untrue

imposter

fudge

mimic

emulate

pretender

dupe

hoax

duplicate

charlatan

impersonate

trick

fabricate

assume

wangle

adulterate

deception

shammer

feint

misrepresent

fictitious

mock

artificial goods

bull

bastard

postiche

affect

wrong

reproduce

role player

finagle

bullshit

pseudo

manipulate

deceptive

fraudulent

pseud

impersonator

talk through one’s hat

swindle

disguise

simulated

delude

faker

unreal

cook

🧑‍🍳

cheat

juke

monkey

🐒

mountebank

nonsense

ostensive

pattern

pinchbeck

plant

🌱

plugged

pretense

prevaricate

prosthetic

red herring

replication

reproduction

rig

ringer

scammer

shark

🦈

show

simulation

spiv

spoof

stagy

swindler

swindling

synthetic

transcript

trickery

twin

two-timer

usurper

utterer

valueless

weasel

welcher

welsher

pose as

spurious article

artificial product

find an excuse

pseudo-

ganef

humbuggery

sandbagger

make like

clip artist

ganof

gonif

goniff

sharpy

jiggery pokery

ingenuine

act

guller

ad-lib

adulterated

ape

artificially

assumed

bad

👎

bait

beguilement

bight

bilk

bluff

carbon

cheater

cheating

chicanery

circumvention

clone

coil

concoct

con man

copycat

crop

debase

deceit

decoration

decoy

deke

delusion

dissemble

dissimulate

diversion

doctor

🧑‍⚕️

erroneous

errors

fakery

fallacy

falsification

falsified

feigned

fictional

fictive

finagler

flimflam

fraudster

front

gammon

goldbrick

guile

guise

gyp

humbug

imitative

imitativeness

imposition

imposture

improvise

incorrect

lie

load

lure

make as if

make believe

make-believe

make up

man-made

masquerade

mimicry

mistaken

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/feɪ̯k/

Etimologia (Anglès)

Cognat amb neerlandès: veeg

Cognat amb alemany: fegen

Cognat amb anglès antic: fācn

Cognat amb nòrdic antic: fjúka

Heretat de anglès mitjà: faken

In summary

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”); 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”).