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fakelore

noun

Etymology

Blend of fake + folklore.

  1. inherited from *laizō✻
  2. inherited from *laiʀu✻
  3. inherited from lār
  4. inherited from lore
  5. compounded as folklore — “folk + lore”
  6. compounded as fakelore — “fake + folklore”

Definitions

  1. Manufactured folklore presented as if it were genuinely traditional.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for fakelore. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA