faker

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English

Etymology

fake +‎ -er

Pronunciation

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  • Rhymes: -eɪkə(r)

Noun

faker (plural fakers)

  1. One who fakes something.
  2. An impostor or impersonator.
  3. (obsolete) A thief.
  4. (obsolete) A peddler of petty things.
  5. (obsolete) A workman who dresses things up.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for faker”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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