SPURIOUS
ADJECTIVES
► ABASTARDIZED degenerate, debased, spurious → 1653 obs.
► ADULTERINE spurious, counterfeit; due to adulteration → 1542
► ADULTEROUS pert. to adulteration; spurious, counterfeit → 1567 arch.
► APOCRYPHATE of spurious creation or character; of doubtful authenticity; fictitious, false → 1486 obs.
► APOCRYPHICAL of doubtful authorship or authenticity; spurious, fictitious, false → 1719 obs.
► BALONEY ► BOLOGNY ► BOLONEY spurious; phony → 1975 US sl. (Bk.)
► BASTARDLY unlicensed, unauthorized; counterfeit, spurious → 1586 obs.
► CAGMAG inferior, second-rate, spurious → 1859 Eng. dial.
► CHROMO spurious, fake, counterfeit → 1886 US sl.
► FAKE fraudulent; spurious; counterfeit; false; pretended → 1775
► FAKED spurious; counterfeit → 1850s colloq.
► FAKED-UP spurious; counterfeit → 1850s colloq.
► KAMMA fake, trumped up, spurious; esp. said of emotions or illness → 20C S. Afr. sl.
► ONE-EIGHTY OUT completely wrong, wholly spurious → 1993 sl.
► PRETENCED alleged, claimed, or professed, esp. falsely; counterfeit, feigned, spurious → 1425 obs.
► PRETEXTUAL of the nature of a pretext; pretended, dubious, spurious → 1837
► SCHLENTER ► SLENTER counterfeit, spurious, fake → L19 Aust. & S. Afr. sl.
► SPOOF fake, spurious, sham → L19 sl.
NOUNS
► FAKE a spurious or counterfeit document; later, anything of a spurious, counterfeit, or fraudulent nature; a false rumour or false story of any kind; an invented newspaper story → 1851 sl., orig. criminals’ usage
► SPURIA spurious works, words, etc. → 1918
► SPURIOSITY something false or illegitimate; a being spurious → 1863
VERBS
► ABASTARD to make or declare bastard or illegitimate; hence, to make spurious or degenerate; to debase, to corrupt, to deteriorate → 1610 obs.
► ABASTARDIZE to render bastard, spurious, or degenerate; to debase, to deteriorate → 1580 obs.
► NAIL TO THE COUNTER to expose as false or spurious; to expose as a lie → 1842
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