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Word entry · 4 letters

fake

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"deceptive move"

4 letters · collected on this word page

4 lettersPronunciation /feɪ̯k/Part of speech noun, verb, adjectiveSorted aefkStarts with FEnds with E1 cluesVery common crossword word
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Definitions

  1. (football) a deceptive move made by a football player

Word origin

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”), itself from German Low German fegen, from Middle Low German vēgen, from Old Saxon fegōn, from Proto-West Germanic *fegōn (“to clean up, polish”).

Used in a sentence

  • Which fur coat looks fake?
  • I suspect this passport is a fake.
  • to fake a marriage

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