faux en · ADJ · etymology 1
Pronunciation
- /fəʊ/ (Received-Pronunciation)
- /foʊ/ (General-American)
- (Southern-England) audio
- /fɔ/ (South-Asia)
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *(s)gʷʰh₂el-der. Proto-Italic *falsō? Latin fallō Latin falsus Old French fals Middle French faulx French fauxubor. English faux Unadapted borrowing from French faux. Doublet of false.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Fake or artificial.
The pregame crew then showed a pair of faux-Super Bowl ads, including an unnecessarily woke Cheez-It commercial and a Papa John’s ad that fully embraces Pizzagaters.
2021 February 7, Daniel Kreps, “Watch ‘Saturday Night Live’ Skewer Super Bowl Sunday”, in Rolling Stone, archived from the original on 07 Aug 2022:Its faux burgers and sausages were landing on dinner plates in homes throughout the United States and on the menu boards of chans like Subway, Carl’s Jr. and Starbucks.
2022 November 21, Julie Creswell, “Beyond Meat Is Struggling, and the Plant-Based Meat Industry Worries”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 28 Feb 2023:Run grapes, either frozen, chilled, or room temperature, through your juicer for an incredible grape faux wine.
2012, Annie Padden Jubb, David Jubb, LifeFood Recipe Book: Living on Life Force, page 196:He modernizes the faux-archaic “withouten wind, withouten tide” to the more pointed and concrete “without a breeze, without a tide.”
2008, James Chandler, Maureen N. McLane, The Cambridge Companion to British Romantic Poetry:Because mahoganies yield a supple fine-grained wood, they are often used as veneer wood. With proper technique and graining tools, all of these variations can be produced in faux wood.
2012, Susan Crabtree, Peter Beudert, Scenic Art for the Theatre: History, Tools and Techniques, page 392:
Antonyms
Deriveds
fauxhemian · fauxlex · fauxtography · fauxpen · fauxlography · fauxligraphy · fauxtism · fauxmosexual · fauxlanthropist · fauxgressive · fauxthentic · sourfaux · fauxcest · fauxgasm · fauxtograph · fauxpology · fauxstalgia · fauxminist · fauxtina · fauxtomation · fauxtato · fauxhawk · fauxmance · Faux News · fauxtatoes · faux gras · fauxnetic · fauxcellarm · faux Cyrillic · faux queen
Relateds
faux bois · faux ami · faux pas
Synonyms
Translations (19)
de künstlich (fake or artificial) · eo falsa (fake or artificial) · ru фальши́вый (fake or artificial) · eo artefarita (fake or artificial) · fr faux (fake or artificial) · ro contrafăcut (fake or artificial) · es de imitación (fake or artificial) · ga bréag- (fake or artificial) · ro fals (fake or artificial) · nl vals (fake or artificial) · nl nep- (fake or artificial) · es falso (fake or artificial) · ru иску́сственный (fake or artificial) · fi keinotekoinen (fake or artificial) · de falsch (fake or artificial) · nl onecht (fake or artificial) · zh 仿製 /仿制 (fake or artificial) · de unecht (fake or artificial) · fi teko- (fake or artificial)