fake
大学受験偽の・偽物（fake news）
意味
- 《話》…のふりをする,を装う
- …をでっち上げる;(絵・紙幣など)を偽造する,に手を入れてごまかす
- (…に)見せかける,(…の)ふりをする
- にせ物,偽造(模造)品
- いかさま師,詐欺師
- にせの,偽造(模造)の
例文
She's faking sleep. That's why she's not snoring.
彼女は寝たふりをしているからいびきをかいていないんだ。
Mary isn't really sick. She's just faking it.
メアリーは本当は病気じゃないんだ。病気のふりをしているだけなんだ。
He can't tell the real thing from the fake.
彼は本物と偽物を区別できない。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
The origin is not known with certainty, although first attested in 1775 C.E. in British criminals' slang. It is probably from feak, feague (“to give a better appearance through artificial means, spruce up, embellish”), itself from German Low German fegen, from Middle Low German vēgen, from Old Saxon fegōn, from Proto-West Germanic *fegōn (“to clean up, polish”). Akin to Dutch veeg (“a swipe”), Dutch vegen (“to sweep, wipe”); German fegen (“to sweep, to polish”). Compare also Old English fācn (“deceit, fraud”). Perhaps related also to Old Norse fjúka (“to fade, vanquish, disappear”), Old Norse feikn (“strange, scary, unnatural”).