"fakery" meaning in English

See fakery in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: fakeries [plural]
Etymology: fake + -ery Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|fake|ery}} fake + -ery Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} fakery (countable and uncountable, plural fakeries)
  1. Fraud or forgery, or an individual instance of this. Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-fakery-en-noun-dZ3DGyqH Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ery

Inflected forms

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