fakery

fakery

English

Etymology

Etymology tree
Middle English faken
English fake
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āsjos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -ārius
Old French -ier
Proto-Indo-European *-yós
Proto-Italic *-ios
Old Latin -ios
Latin -ius
Latin -ia
Old French -ie
Old French -eriebor.
Middle English -erie
English -ery
English fakery

    From fake + -ery.

    Noun

    fakery (countable and uncountable, plural fakeries)

    1. Fraud or forgery, or an individual instance of this.

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