Meanings
- uncountableManufactured folklore presented as if it were genuinely traditional.
1 more example
Behind all this was the mythy Paul Bunyan, that giant lumberjack from the North Woods who bestrode entire counties in a single step while accompanied by the equally gigantic Babe the Blue Ox. To be sure, as with other heroes of American fakelore — bear-wrestling Davy Crockett, coyote-raised Pecos Bill, river-boating Mike Fink — there lingered about Paul Bunyan an aroma of frontier development and chamber-of-commerce boosterism.
2009 May 31, Jerry Griswold, “A Family of Epic Proportions”, in New York Times
Origin
Translations
French fakelore
- fakeloremanufactured folklore presented as if it were genuinely traditional
Russian псевдофолькло́р
- псевдофолькло́р (psevdofolʹklór)manufactured folklore presented as if it were genuinely traditional
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fakelore. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fakelore
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