单词 | fakement |
释义 | fakementn. slang (originally and chiefly British). Now rare. 1. A scheme or device (typically for some dishonest purpose), a ploy, a dodge, a trick; (sometimes more vaguely) a thing, an item.In earliest use apparently spec. with reference to forgery. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > ability > skill or skilfulness > cunning > [noun] > a wile or cunning device wrenchc888 craftOE turnc1225 ginc1275 play?a1300 enginec1300 wrenkc1325 forsetc1330 sleightc1340 knackc1369 cautel138. subtletya1393 wilea1400 tramc1400 wrinkle1402 artc1405 policy?1406 subtilityc1410 subtiltyc1440 jeopardy1487 jouk1513 pawka1522 frask1524 false point?1528 conveyance1534 compass1540 fineness1546 far-fetch?a1562 stratagem1561 finesse1562 entrapping1564 convoyance1578 lift1592 imagine1594 agitation1600 subtleship1614 artifice1620 navation1628 wimple1638 rig1640 lapwing stratagem1676 feint1679 undercraft1691 fly-flap1726 management1736 fakement1811 old tricka1822 fake1829 trickeration1940 swiftie1945 shrewdie1961 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > [noun] > a trick, deception wrenchc888 swikec893 braida1000 craftOE wile1154 crookc1175 trokingc1175 guile?c1225 hocket1276 blink1303 errorc1320 guileryc1330 sleightc1340 knackc1369 deceitc1380 japec1380 gaudc1386 syllogism1387 mazec1390 mowa1393 train?a1400 trantc1400 abusionc1405 creekc1405 trickc1412 trayc1430 lirtc1440 quaint?a1450 touch1481 pawka1522 false point?1528 practice1533 crink1534 flim-flamc1538 bobc1540 fetcha1547 abuse1551 block1553 wrinklec1555 far-fetch?a1562 blirre1570 slampant1577 ruse1581 forgery1582 crank1588 plait1589 crossbite1591 cozenage1592 lock1598 quiblin1605 foist1607 junt1608 firk1611 overreach?1615 fob1622 ludification1623 knick-knacka1625 flam1632 dodge1638 gimcrack1639 fourbe1654 juggle1664 strategy1672 jilt1683 disingenuity1691 fun1699 jugglementa1708 spring1753 shavie1767 rig?1775 deception1794 Yorkshire bite1795 fakement1811 fake1829 practical1833 deceptivity1843 tread-behind1844 fly1861 schlenter1864 Sinonism1864 racket1869 have1885 ficelle1890 wheeze1903 fast one1912 roughie1914 spun-yarn trick1916 fastie1931 phoney baloney1933 fake-out1955 okey-doke1964 mind-fuck1971 1811 Lexicon Balatronicum Fakement, a counterfeit signature. A forgery. Tell the macers to mind their fakements; desire the swindlers to be careful not to forge another person's signature. 1819 J. H. Vaux New Vocab. Flash Lang. in Memoirs II. at Fakeman-charley A forgery which is well executed is said to be a prime fakement; in a word, anything is liable to be termed a fakement..provided the person you address knows to what you allude. 1829 Proc. Old Bailey 11 June 604/1 Go to the fakement and obtain the leaf, then it will be my ingenuity that will settle the slum and put the bustle in our clyes. 1838 W. N. Glascock Land Sharks & Sea Gulls II. ii. vi. 4 I see you're fly to every fakement. 1862 C. R. Thatcher Dunedin Songster No. 1. 8 Sheenie boys..up to a fakement. 1933 Blackwood's Mag. Sept. 319/1 The Clydeside mechanic in charge..made me a useful axle..which, hand-forged, in the end turned out to be a fakement wonderfully tough. 1961 Independent Star-News (Pasadena, Calif.) 5 Feb. 7/7 All was..a treacherous and deceitful fakement, for where once had been the noble and useful green sealing wax was twined around the cork in its stead a nasty blob of miserable plastic. 2. A piece of decoration or elaboration, a trimming, an embellishment; a knick-knack, a gewgaw. Frequently in plural. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > parts of clothing > [noun] > trimmings or ornamentation pertinencea1513 garnish1527 trapping1596 trimming1625 trim1665 garniture1668 trimmage1693 fixing1820 fakement1843 doings1847 1843 Argus 11 Feb. 4/3 A pair of long-sleeve milled kerseymere..with a double fakement down the sides, and artful buttons at the bottom. 1882 G. A. Sala in Illustr. London News 4 Mar. 206/1 His corduroy ‘kicksies’, with the ‘artful fakement’ at the bottom. 1912 Pall Mall Mag. Apr. 573/1 Naked you came into this world, and almost jolly well naked as regards toilet and fashion fakements do you go a-sailing in a warplane. 1919 Daily Mail 21 July 4/2 The cowboy..dressed in slacks cut saucy, with double fakements, mounted on an old pony. 1942 Tucson (Arizona) Daily Citizen 27 Jan. 4/2 L. Beebe got in quite a temper about madame's hats. He columned that they are too loaded with vegetables and fakements. 3. As mass noun: fraudulent manipulation or counterfeiting; faking, fakery. ΚΠ 1938 News (Adelaide) 24 Nov. 9/3 There is nothing so easy for fakement as a copper plate. 1953 Sunday Tel. (Sydney) 22 Mar. 3/2 Mrs. Bradberry charged that Costello, Rupp, and Curd had conspired in ‘manipulation and fakement’ of odds. 1993 Internat. Jrnl. World Peace 10 105 If I hear one more pompous academician engaging in such pharisaism and fakement, in such duplicity and dissimulation, I will castigate him or her as a follower of Abdullah Ibn Obba! CompoundsΚΠ 1819 J. H. Vaux New Vocab. Flash Lang. in Memoirs II. at Fakeman-charley Speaking of any stolen property which has a private mark, one will say, there is a fakeman-charley on it..in a word, anything is liable to be termed a fakement, or a fakeman-charley, provided the person you address knows to what you allude. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1811 |
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