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語源 1

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 古期英語 fācn (“deceit, fraud”). Perhaps related also to Old Norse fjúka (“to fade, vanquish, disappear”), Old Norse feikn (“strange, scary, unnatural”).

形容詞

fake (comparative faker または more fake, superlative fakest または most fake)

1. Not real; false, fraudulent

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:fake

   Antonyms: authentic, genuine

   Which fur coat looks fake?

2. (of people) Insincere

派生語

派生した語

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

名詞

fake (複数形 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

同意語

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

派生した語

• → Japanese: フェイク (feiku)

動詞

fake (三人称単数 現在形 fakes, 現在分詞 faking, 過去形および過去分詞形 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 (または a part in an arrangement) without reading the notation.

同意語

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

派生語

派生した語

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

語源 2

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

名詞

fake (複数形 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.

動詞

fake (三人称単数 現在形 fakes, 現在分詞 faking, 過去形および過去分詞形 faked)

1. (nautical) To coil (a rope, line, または hawser), by winding alternately in opposite directions, in layers usually of zigzag or figure of eight form, to prevent twisting when running out.

Further reading

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

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アナグラム

• feak