fakelore
fakelore noun: manufactured folklore presented as if it were genuinely traditional.
Noun
fakelore (uncountable)
- Manufactured folklore presented as if it were genuinely traditional.
- Behind all this was the mythy Paul Bunyan, that giant lumberjack from the North Woods who bestrode entire counties in a single step while accompanied by the equally gigantic Babe the Blue Ox. To be sure, as with other heroes of American fakelore — bear-wrestling Davy Crockett, coyote-raised Pecos...2009 May 31, Jerry Griswold, “A Family of Epic Proportions”, in New York Times
Origin of fakelore
Blend of fake + folklore.
Questions about fakelore
- What does fakelore mean?
- Fakelore means manufactured folklore presented as if it were genuinely traditional.
- What part of speech is fakelore?
- Fakelore is a noun.
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