1859. Matsell, Vocabulum, or Rogue’s Lexicon, s.v.
Fake away! intj. phr. (common).—An ejaculation of encouragement.
1834. Harrison Ainsworth, Rookwood. The knucks in quod did my
schoolmen play, Fake away!
1846. Punch’s Almanack, ‘Song of September.’ The partridge on its
tender wing Is up at break of day, But down the bird my gun shall
bring: Bang! fizz, boys! fake away!
Fake-boodle.—See Boodle.
Faked, ppl. adj. (common).—Counterfeit; sometimes faked-up. Fr., lophe.
1889. Answers, 15 June, p. 41, col. 1. In order to prevent any
chance of a dishonest person winning by means of a faked puzzle we
shall provide a number of puzzles ourselves, and these will be used
by all competitors.
Fakement, subs. (old).—1. A counterfeit signature; a forgery;
specifically a begging letter or petition. Fr., brasser des faffes = to
forge documents, i.e., ‘to screeve fakements’; un fafiot (also a bank
note, or shoe); and une luque or un luquet.
1785. Grose, Dict. Vulg. Tongue. Tell the macers to mind their
fakements, desire the swindlers to be careful not to forge another
person’s signature.
1856. H. Mayhew, Gt. World of London, p. 46. Dependents of beggars;
as screevers or the writers of ‘slums’ (letters) and fakements
(petitions).
1857. Ducange Anglicus, The Vulgar Tongue, p. 39. Lawyer Bob draws
fakements up; he’s tipped a peg for each.
1889. Answers, 27 July, p. 137, col. 1. I have drawn up fakements
for sham members of almost every trade, always using a leading name
at the head of the list of donors.
2. (common).—Generic for dishonest practices; but applied to any kind
of action, contrivance, or trade.—See Fake, subs., of which it is an
older usage. Cf., Kidment.
1838. Glascock, Land Sharks and Sea Gulls, II., 4. That’s right; I
see you’re fly to every fakement.
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.