Fake away. Cut away, make off (Latin, fac, do, make). It also means to do—i.e. to cheat or swindle.
Fake. A single fold of a coiled cable. (Scotch, faik, a fold; Swedish, vika, to involve; Saxon, fœgan, to unite.)
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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