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1857. Ducange Anglicus. The Vulg. Tongue, p. 44. For every day, mind what I say, Fresh fakements you will find.
1859. H. Kingsley, Geoffry Hamlyn, ch. v. I cultivated his acquaintance, examined his affairs, and put him up to the neatest little fakement in the world.
1876. C. Hindley, Life and Adventures of a Cheap Jack, p. 232. Stow your gab and gauffery, To every fakement I'm a-fly. Ibid., p. 233. I have got a pair of highly polished steel spring snuffers with extra fakement; they will either snuff a candle out or snuff a candle in.
1877. Five Years' Penal Servitude, ch. iv., p. 254. You worked that little fakement in a blooming quiet way, . . . said my late neighbour.
1883. Daily Telegraph, 7 Aug., p. 6, col. 2. Pair of moleskins [trousers], any colour . . . with a double fakement down the sides, and artful buttons at the bottom.
3. (theatrical).—Small properties; accessories.
Fakement-Charley, subs. phr.
(thieves').—An owner's private
mark.
1864. Hotten, Slang Dict., s.v.
Faker, subs. (common).—1. One
who makes, does, or 'fakes'
anything; specifically a thief.
Found in many combinations:
e.g., Bit-faker; Flue faker;
Grub-faker; Sham-faker,
Twat-faker, etc.
1851. G. Borrow, Lavengro, ch. xxxi., p. 112 (1888). We never calls them thieves here, but prigs and fakers.
1857. Ducange Anglicus, Vulg. Tongue. Faker, a jeweller (theatrical).
1869. George Macdonald, Robert Falconer, pt. III., ch. x. Them pusses is mannyfactered express for the convenience o' the fakers.
1885. Daily Telegraph, 1 August, p. 2, col. 1. 'I've turned faker of dolls and dolls' furniture; like what you see us working on now.' 'And when you say faker you mean—'Renowater,' struck in Miss Menders.
1887. Baumann, Londonismen, p. 5. Piratical fakers Of bosh by the acres.
2. (circus).—A circus rider or performer.
3. (venery).—A prostitute's Fancy-man (q.v.).
Fakes and Slumboes,, subs. phr.
(theatrical).—Properties; accessories
of any kind.
Faking, verb. subs. (common).—The
act of doing anything. [From
FAKE (q.v.) + ING.] Fr., le
maquillage or le goupinage.
Fall, verb (thieves').—1. To be
arrested.
1883. Horsley, Jottings from Jail [in Echo]. A little time after this I fell again at St. Mary Cray for being found at the back of a house.
2. (venery).—To conceive. For synonyms, see Lumpy.
Fall of the Leaf, subs. phr.
(old).—Hanging. [In allusion to
the fall of the drop.] For synonyms,
see Ladder.
1789. G. Parker, Variegated Characters. He was knocked down for the crap the last sessions. He went off at the fall of the leaf at Tuck'em Fair.
False-hereafter, subs. (American).—A
bustle. For synonyms,
see Bird-cage.
Fam.—See Fambling-cheat and
Famble.
Famble, Fam, or Fem, subs. (old).—The
hand. Cf., Fambling-CHEAT.
For synonyms, see
Bunch of fives and Daddle.
[German slang has Fehm, Vehm,
or Vehn, and is apparently the
same word as he English Fam.
A likely etymon is the Swed. and
Dan. fem, five.]
