Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗Fake, hoax.
To gently satirize. · To deceive. · To falsify; especially, to falsify identities by impersonating for scamming purposes.
An act of deception; a hoax; a joking prank. · A cyberattack involving deception via impersonated identities; a digital asset used in such an attack. · A light parody. · A drinking game in which players hold up to three (or another specified number of) coins hidden in a fist and attempt to guess the total number of coins held.
Coined by English comedian Arthur Roberts in 1884 as the name of a card game involving deception and nonsense.
This page abbreviates 2 auxiliary source items. The etymology narrative is not shortened. Omission counts are available in the audit fields below; consult the original for complete auxiliary material.
Inspect preserved source fields
Raw extraction fields are retained for auditing. Their order does not establish ancestry.
{
"templates": [
{
"name": "coin",
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "Arthur Roberts",
"w": "Arthur Roberts (comedian)",
"in": "1884",
"nat": "English",
"occ": "comedian",
"nobycat": "1"
},
"expansion": "Coined by English comedian Arthur Roberts in 1884"
}
],
"links": [
[
"caricature",
"caricature"
],
[
"sheet music",
"sheet music"
]
],
"references": [],
"descendants": [],
"lexical": [
{
"pos": "adj",
"glosses": [
"Fake, hoax."
],
"tags": [
"not-comparable"
],
"recordId": "51a030cf9c51456caac878cffb70afaafe8c81baf53d56fb6c54fc2e1c160250",
"rawRecordSha256": "a1d3f20a770a26f21ae2e6fff9d849ccf2453c73d51a5d460cd1823ba35c775f",
"sourceRecordOrdinal": 272520
},
{
"pos": "verb",
"glosses": [
"To gently satirize.",
"To deceive.",
"To falsify; especially, to falsify identities by impersonating for scamming purposes."
],
"tags": [
"transitive",
"ambitransitive"
],
"recordId": "6472fc32476fec0046f1626373ddbd6819abfefff7e18ba67791d37fa63aa870",
"rawRecordSha256": "d03270e6b55e31733c95e192ca3189076d16fe2797ba3e6ef97f535cfde97f34",
"sourceRecordOrdinal": 272521
},
{
"pos": "noun",
"glosses": [
"An act of deception; a hoax; a joking prank.",
"A cyberattack involving deception via impersonated identities; a digital asset used in such an attack.",
"A light parody.",
"A drinking game in which players hold up to three (or another specified number of) coins hidden in a fist and attempt to guess the total number of coins held."
],
"tags": [
"countable",
"uncountable",
"UK",
"historical"
],
"recordId": "ceb990669fa61b9ae93bbb6275234f8ec229a315be66b1207cf044cd67017097",
"rawRecordSha256": "e44a30ab1f465388defaa92d397c2bad9e56a4b270c78e014f1e51f48bb8eff8",
"sourceRecordOrdinal": 272519
}
],
"omittedAuxiliaryFields": {
"templates": 0,
"links": 0,
"references": 0,
"descendants": 0,
"lexicalRecords": 0,
"lexicalSenses": 2,
"glosses": 0
}
}