false friend
Meaning
Noun
- A word in a language that bears a deceptive resemblance to a word in another language but in fact has a different meaning.
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Origin
- , from the longer phrase faux amis du traducteur, first used by Maxime Kœssler and Jules Derocquigny in 1928 in their book '' (False Friends, or the Pitfalls of the English Vocabulary'').
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