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fakelore en · NOUN

Etymology

Blend of fake + folklore.

Meanings

  1. (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 Bill, river-boating Mike Fink — there lingered about Paul Bunyan an aroma of frontier development and chamber-of-commerce boosterism. 2009 May 31, Jerry Griswold, “A Family of Epic Proportions”, in New York Times:

Translations (2)

ru псевдофолькло́р (manufactured folklore presented as if it were genuinely traditional) · fr fakelore (manufactured folklore presented as if it were genuinely traditional)