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fakey

fakey adjective: fake. Also the alternative form of fakie.

Adjective

fakey (comparative more fakey, superlative most fakey)

  1. (colloquial) Fake.
    • We do many before and afters at Cosmo with models (who don't look all that great before the makeup, incidentally) and civilians, and none of them ever continues to do the “after” makeup on a regular basis. Too much work, too fakey and, if you’ve pulled all the stops out every day, where would be...1993, Helen Gurley Brown, The Late Show: A Semiwild but Practical Survival Plan for Women over 50, New York, N.Y.: William Morrow and Company, Inc., →ISBN, page 103
    • It is easy to dislike many of the later videos: even as early as the late ’80s, the kind of drama he puts onto screen often looks fakey, and isn’t always rescued by his skill as a performer.2009 June 27, Alastair Macaulay, “His Moves Expressed as Much as His Music”, in New York Times

Also used as

fakey is also the alternative form of fakie.

Forms of fakey

Adjective
comparativemore fakey
superlativemost fakey
alternative formfaky
Noun
pluralfakeys

Origin of fakey

From fake + -y.

Words formed from fakey

Words that rhyme with fakey

3 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about fakey

What does fakey mean?
Fakey means fake.
What part of speech is fakey?
Fakey is an adjective.

Words near fakey in the dictionary

  1. Fakestinian
  2. Fakestinians
  3. fakestream
  4. faketh
  5. Faketoshi
  6. fakey
  7. fakeyness
  8. fakeys
  9. Fakhouri
  10. Fakhouris
  11. Fakhoury

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