English

fakeroo

From fake + -eroo.

A compound of fake + -eroo

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

Today it means

noun Something fake.

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