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fakester

noun

Etymology

From fake + -ster.

  1. derived from *fegōn✻ — “to clean up, polish”
  2. derived from fegōn
  3. derived from vēgen
  4. derived from fegen
  5. suffixed as fakester — “fake + ster”

Definitions

  1. A person who seeks to deceive others.

    • And congrats to KROQ-FM deejay the Poorman, who nabbed a fakester passing himself off as comic-pitchman Joe Piscopo.

  2. A user account on a social networking site with a profile containing information of a…

    A user account on a social networking site with a profile containing information of a false, satirical, or promotional nature.

    • These "fakesters" portray themselves as everything from inanimate objects like the World Trade Center to celebrities like Paris Hilton to historical forces like War (which lists its profession as "resolving disputes").

  3. A person who affects a behavior, style, or attitude.

    • She was preppy. Seriously preppy. And not in a fakester way, like an Abercrombie Zombie or a Polo-poser.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for fakester. 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