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Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. Manufactured folklore presented as if it were genuinely traditional.
Etymologies
- Blend of fake and folklore (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Yesterday, thinking about werewolves and "fakelore," working on promotional stuff for The Red Tree, I may have come a bit closer to understanding what the next novel is about.”
“This is sometimes described as "fakelore" rather than folklore, see the Wikipedia article on that.”
“If the difference between folklore and "fakelore" is that someone has to be self-consciously deliberate about inventing a past, the difference may only exist in a meaningful way for a short period of time until others start experiencing the fakelore as folklore.”
“Neopagans are experts in this kind of historical fabrications, but there are examples of "fakelore" almost everywhere.”
“His research is pretty good, but he's only human -- he repeats "fakelore" like the Mad Gasser of Mattoon uncritically.”
“Incorporating Indian characters or traditions helps to establish a fantasy as American rather than stuck within those dominant British and other European traditions; Chabon has spoken explicitly about that goal in writing Summerland, which also includes the heroes of traditional American folklore (and fakelore), as well as a whole lot more.”
“The mythology … folklore and fakelore, the personality cult … God, Jesus, Santa Claus, Subcomandante Marcos … vote for hoodie or loodie … maybe Chiapas and places like them reveal the difference between metaphysical hope and comfortable binkie-suck.”
“Folklorists sneer and call such things "fakelore.”
“And others are ones whose time has obviously come, or possibly gone, in the way of slang -- automagically, bouncebackability, fakelore, hacktivist, voddy for vodka.”
“Yet Hulk was not a man to cater to any fakelore or superstition; he was supremely prac - tical.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘fakelore’.
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you know that thing where the Eskimos have 50 words for snow?
little white lie, big lie, the Big Lie, economical with t..., muddy the waters, fabrication, deception, lies, damned lies..., façade, slander, omission, web of lies and 159 more...
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Untruisms
confabulation, factitious disorder, Münchhausen by proxy, Münchausen syndrome, pseudologia fanta..., pseudology, fabrication, equivocation, dysmorphophobia, chicane, counterfactual, pseudograph and 13 more...
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cgrimm's list
Words I like or find interesting
boondoggle, kerfuffel, schadenfreude, possierlich, vendor, skidaddle, apfelsine, fodder, scapegrace, die tarnung, tarnkappe, shampoo and 16 more...
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Myriadmiration
Neologisms ala Wordnik.com. Directly below are links to some other New Word lists... pease suggest yours to add!
Ne(word)er by whichbe
fake words by sionnach
frivolous uni...obstacular, frenemy, delayering, playgue, abjective, contradictionary, sarchasm, goggly, ecolect, disimagine, alligavate, sniboluous and 330 more...
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Rem'brance
Keepin' track.
aporia, jean-claude gosh ..., anaptyxis, kelemenopy, gnomon, cooee, simpatico, fakelore, acapnotic, tyro, dizzard, eccedentesiast
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VanishedOne's Words
facipulator, fetiphobia, gules, boustrophedon, reverse boustroph..., unreal, ensiform, xiphoid, romhack, heritage, floccinaucinihili..., johnian and 1004 more...
Tweets
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vanishedone 'In Canada, certain unscrupulous manufacturers of faux Inuit art (sometimes called fakelore) have adopted tags that resemble ones with the official symbol of provenance authority.' ~ James O. Young, Cultural Appropriation and the Arts, p. 156 May 5, 2008