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noun

faker n.

One who fakes something; as

(a)

A thief.

(b)

A peddler of petty things.

(c)

A workman who dresses things up. (Slang)

A person who makes deceitful pretenses.

Synonyms: imposter, impostor, pretender, fake, fraud, sham, pseudo, pseud, role player.

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Etymology of 'Faker'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Faker" Quotes from Famous Books

... them first," and he got hold of dad and me, and the rest stood off like a lot of hack drivers that have seen a customer fall into the hands of another driver, and made up faces at us, and called the farmer who had caught us the vilest names. They said we would be skinned to a finish by the faker who got us, ...

— Peck's Bad Boy Abroad • George W. Peck

... and leaving the trail behind me, I somehow had a foreboding that I might be mistaken for a faker and looked upon as an adventurer, and I shrank from the ordeal. My hair had grown long on the trip across; my boots were somewhat the worse for wear, and my old-fashioned clothes (understood well enough by pioneers along the trail) were dilapidated. ...

— Ox-Team Days on the Oregon Trail • Ezra Meeker

... them," returned Kelly, "is that a cat has nine lives, and a barking dog won't bite. You're a nature faker." ...

— The Nature Faker • Richard Harding Davis

Words linked to "Faker" : cheater, fake, slicker, deceiver, sham, ringer, name dropper, pseud, pretender, pseudo