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fauxhemian

fauxhemian noun: someone who adopts some aspects of a Bohemian lifestyle while staying within social conventions.

Noun

fauxhemian (plural fauxhemians)

  1. Someone who adopts some aspects of a Bohemian lifestyle while staying within social conventions.
    • A far cry from the tie-dyed life I pictured for him, squeezing out the last drops of the long-depleted Woodstock spirit with a bunch of fauxhemians a third his age who want to touch the hem of his garment (or, more likely, smoke him out) because he used to hang with Dylan.2006, Kevin Shay, The End As I Know It, Doubleday, →ISBN, page 140
    • The bar where we're playing — a dank little hole in Manhattan's East Village that attracts a following every three years or so when some young fauxhemian "discovers" the place and writes about it for Time Out New York or The Village Voice, usually under a catchy headline like "Dives We Love" — is...2007, Heather Byer, Sweet: An Eight-ball Odyssey, Riverhead Books, →ISBN, page 2

Forms of fauxhemian

pluralfauxhemians

Origin of fauxhemian

Blend of faux + Bohemian.

Questions about fauxhemian

What does fauxhemian mean?
Fauxhemian means someone who adopts some aspects of a Bohemian lifestyle while staying within social conventions.
What part of speech is fauxhemian?
Fauxhemian is a noun.
What is the plural of fauxhemian?
The plural of fauxhemian is fauxhemians.

Words near fauxhemian in the dictionary

  1. fauxgressive
  2. fauxgressives
  3. fauxhawk
  4. fauxhawked
  5. fauxhawks
  6. fauxhemian
  7. fauxhemians
  8. fauxlanthropist
  9. fauxlanthropists
  10. fauxlex
  11. fauxlexes

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