fake

Meanings

Adjective

• Not real; false, fraudulent
• Insincere

Noun

• Something which is not genuine, or is presented fraudulently.
• A move meant to deceive an opposing player, used for gaining advantage for example when dribbling an opponent.
• A trick; a swindle
• One of the circles or windings of a cable or hawser, as it lies in a coil; a single turn or coil.

Verb

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

Related

Similar words

• feint
• deke
• adulterate
• pass off, pose

Origin

• The origin is not known with certainty, although first attested in 1775 in British criminals' slang. It is probably from feak, feague; akin to Dutch veeg ("a slap"), vegen; German fegen ("to sweep, to polish"). Compare Old English fācn, fācen. Perhaps related to Old Norse fjúka ("fade, vanquish, disappear"), feikn.
• From Middle English faken ("to coil a rope").