English
fake and gay
From fake (“false”) + and + gay (“lame, uncool, stupid”); originating online in the early 2000s as a way to question a story's authenticity.
A compound of fake ‘false’ + and + gay ‘lame, uncool, stupid’
Proto-West Germanic *fegōn ‘to clean up, polish’
Old Saxon fegōn
Middle Low German vēgen
German Low German fegen
English feague ‘to spruce up, embellish’
English fake
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ent- ‘face’
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Proto-Germanic *andi ‘in addition’
Proto-West Germanic *andi
Old English and
Middle English and ‘and’
English and
Today it means
adj Obviously false, clearly inauthentic.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / fake and gay