Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Any act of deceit, fraud, swindling, or thieving; the act of begging under false pretenses; also, a device by which fraud is effected.
- n. Any peculiar or artistic production or piece of workmanship.
Examples
“When the tying-up fakement was over everything went off first-rate.”
“Mr. Falkland ‘ll stand a farm, you may be sure, for this little fakement.’”
“For some time past, it seems, dad had been grumbling about being left to himself so much, and, except this last fakement, not having anything to do with the road work.”
“It's all the same jolly fakement to me, one way or t'other.”
“Charley's next birthday I shall present him, I think, with a proper pearly suit, with kicksies cut saucy over the trotters, and an artful fakement down the side, if the Society will allow me.”
The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 30, June 1893 An Illustrated Monthly
“Mr. Falkland 'll stand a farm, you may be sure, for this little fakement.”
Robbery under Arms; a story of life and adventure in the bush and in the Australian goldfields
“They're going to take up a back block and do the thing regular: Marston, Starlight, and Company -- that's the fakement.”
Robbery under Arms; a story of life and adventure in the bush and in the Australian goldfields
“He said he somehow didn't expect the fakement to turn out well.”
Robbery under Arms; a story of life and adventure in the bush and in the Australian goldfields
“Now the thing is, does any one know that you boys was in the fakement? ”
Robbery under Arms; a story of life and adventure in the bush and in the Australian goldfields
“We're all ready for the fakement -- pops primed -- and I tell you what, Rob Rust, I've made my clasp-knife as sharp as a razor, and damme, if Lady Rookwood offers any resistance, I'll spoil her talking in future, I promise you.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘fakement’.
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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 165 more...
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-ments aplenty
The stranger, the better.
battlement, devilment, ailment, dismemberment, embezzlement, blandishment, entanglement, engorgement, embankment, elopement, disgruntlement, hutment and 77 more...
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Wordie/Wordnik Curio Cabinet
Oddments culled from my "main" lists that belong in a display cabinet of their own, plus sundry other curiosities. :-)
zeugma, ziggurat, xiphoid, xeric, whizgigging, whangdoodle, viviparous, vivific, vinolent, verjuice, vellicate, velleity and 1193 more...
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Misdirector's Cut
Hey...
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...sneaky, legerdemain, flimflam, unwittingly, clandestine, hornswoggle, sleveen, subversion, espionage, incognito, subreption, gank and 147 more...
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jmjarmstrong's list
Words that I used to know.
geloscopy, hunker, willy nilly, harum scarum, whacko, meh, nork, misunderestimate, atrabiliousness, luftmensch, auxanometer, hyperhedonia and 1948 more...
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Words 2011
New words that I've read in 2011
mendacity, drogue, caisson, fakement, abattoir, specious, barbican, inimical, argot, wot, sotto voce, nonce and 76 more...
Tweets
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jmjarmstrong JM is a fakement of his own imagination. Feb 16, 2011
Casey "He wiggled the hand he held in the air. 'It's all the same jolly fakement to me, one way or t'other.'" From The Wastelands by Stephen King. Jan 8, 2011
whichbe Something faked; a contrivance or device used to deceive. May 12, 2008