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fakemail

noun

Etymology

From fake + mail.

  1. derived from *molko-✻
  2. derived from *malhō✻
  3. derived from *malhu✻ — “bag”
  4. derived from male
  5. derived from male
  6. inherited from male
  7. compounded as fakemail — “fake + mail”

Definitions

  1. Email whose sender or other information has been faked.

    • The most common misuses of e-mail are fakemail and spam. Fakemail is the act of sending an e-mail that appears to be from another individual.
    • Fakemail is any e-mail that has been falsely created or altered in some manner. It is often used as a method to hide the source address in spamming.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for fakemail. 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