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fakery

[fey-kuh-ree]

noun, plural -er·ies.

the practice or result of faking.

Origin:
1885–90; fake¹ + -ery

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a chattering or flighty, light-headed person.

a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.

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fake¹ (feɪk)

—vb
1.	(tr) to cause (something inferior or not genuine) to appear more valuable, desirable, or real by fraud or pretence
2.	to pretend to have (an illness, emotion, etc): to fake a headache
3.	to improvise (music, stage dialogue, etc)

—n
4.	an object, person, or act that is not genuine; sham, counterfeit, or forgery

—*adj*
5.	not genuine; spurious

[originally (C18) thieves' slang to mug or do someone; probably via Polari from Italian facciare to make or do]

'faker¹

—n

'fakery¹

—n

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