Definition of Faker

1. Noun. A person who makes deceitful pretenses.

Exact synonyms: Fake, Fraud, Imposter, Impostor, Pretender, Pseud, Pseudo, Role Player, Sham, Shammer
Generic synonyms: Beguiler, Cheat, Cheater, Deceiver, Slicker, Trickster
Specialized synonyms: Name Dropper, Ringer
Derivative terms: Fake, Fake, Fake, Fake, Fake, Pretend, Pretend, Sham, Sham, Sham, Sham

Definition of Faker

1. n. One who fakes something, as a thief, a peddler of petty things, a workman who dresses things up, etc.

Definition of Faker

1. Noun. one who fakes something ¹

2. Noun. an impostor or impersonator ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Faker

1. one that fakes [n -S] - See also: fakes

Lexicographical Neighbors of Faker

fake
fake book
fake etymology
fake the funk
fakeaway
fakeaways
faked
fakeer
fakeers
fakelaki
fakelore
fakely
fakement
fakements
faker (current term)
fakeries
fakers
fakery
fakes
fakest
fakester
fakesters
fakey
fakie
fakies
fakin'
faking
fakir
fakirism

Literary usage of Faker

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Gold Bricks of Speculation: A Study of Speculation and Its Counterfeits, and by John Hill (1904)
"Showing the expert circular writer's mission; the way money can be " lost "; the convenient mercantile agency; how the " faker " is subject to blackmail, ..."

2. Throttled!: The Detection of the German and Anarchist Bomb Plotters by Thomas Joseph Tunney, Paul Merrick Hollister (1919)
"... IX THE NATURE faker Richard Harding Davis could have done justice to this story. In December of 1917 we had been eight months at war. ..."

3. Confessions of a War Correspondent by William Gunn Shepherd (1917)
"... THE faker THERE have been three stages in war correspondents' activities in the Great War. Every one of them might have been noticed by the careful ..."

4. The Reminiscences of Sir Henry Hawkins, Baron Brampton by Henry Hawkins Brampton, Richard Harris (1904)
"faker, AND THE WELSH WILL I WAS retained at Hertford Assizes with Peter Ryland, a practising barrister on that circuit, as my leader, ..."

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