FEIGN, FEIGNED
ADJECTIVES
► AFFECTATIOUS of the nature of affectation; pretentious, fake, sham, feigned → 1687 obs.
► FAINT feigned, pretended, simulated → a1300 obs.
► FENZIED feigned, pretended → 1827 Sc.
► GAMMONING counterfeit, false, pretended, feign → 1802 UK sl. obs.
► PERSONATE feigned, pretended, counterfeit → 1597 obs.
► PRETENCED alleged, claimed, or professed, esp. falsely; counterfeit, feigned, spurious → 1425 obs.
► PRETENSIVE characterized by pretense; pretended, feigned → 1607
ADVERBS
► FAINTLY feignedly, by way of feint or pretense, deceitfully → c1330 obs.
► PRETENSIVELY pretendedly, feignedly; as a pretext → 1607
NOUNS – PERSON
► FAKER a person who feigns illness, injury, or disability; a malingerer → 1910 colloq.
► SIMULER a simulator, a feigner → 1534 obs.
VERBS
► ACT POSSUM to feign; to pretend to be ill or dead → 1844 US sl. obs.
► CHUCK A CURLY to feign sickness; to malinger → 1892 military sl. (Bk.)
► CHUCK A DUMMY to be absent; to feign a fainting fit to get out of duty or get sympathy → Amer. World War I sl.
► COME THE POSSUM OVER A PERSON to feign; to pretend to be ill or dead → 1844 US sl. obs.
to feign or simulate; to pretend → 1889 sl.
► FAKE ► FAKE IT to feign illness, injury, or disability; to malinger; to pretend → 1881 Amer. sl.
► FENZIE to feign, to pretend → 1773 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► GAMMON to feign, to pretend → 1812
► MAKE to act, to pretend, to feign → 1848 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
► MAKE WISE to pretend, to feign, to make believe → 1867 Eng. dial.
► PAINT to talk speciously; to feign; to fawn; to flatter or deceive with specious words → c1430 obs.
► PLAY POSSUM to feign; to pretend to be ill or dead → 1844 US sl.
► POSSUM IT to feign or simulate sleep, etc. → 1850 US colloq.
► PRETEX to use as a pretext or excuse; to pretend, to feign → 1545 obs.
► SIMULE to simulate or feign → c1480 obs.
► TAKE to affect, to feign, to pretend, to make believe to do something → 1571 obs.
► TAKE ON to assume; to feign, to pretend; to act as a hypocrite → Bk1905 Eng. dial.
► WORK ONE’S TICKET to get out of a chore by feigning illness or injury → Brit. sl., orig. army usage
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