I had my doubts, so I looked up the etymology of the word fake. The most common origins were something along the lines of:
A likely source is feague “to spruce up by artificial means,” from Ger. fegen “polish, sweep,” also “to clear out, plunder” in colloquial use. “Much of our early thieves’ slang is Ger. or Du., and dates from the Thirty Years’ War” [Weekley]. Or it may be from L. facere “to do.” Link
Feaguing does have a second meaning which is described in the post, but I couldn’t find mentions of that meaning linked to the word fake. But the practice of feaguing has apparently evolved from horses to humans as an act known as figging…I’ll leave to look that one up on your own (or not).
Almost as if this definition of fake is fake
Just an excuse for op to shove more stuff up their ass
This is what that Canadian girl in the 90s warned us about.
I posted this to the Wikipedia com a little while ago. NSFW: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Figging
all my job interviews would have gone more vigorously
“What can you bring to the team?”
“Bend over and spread 'em and I’ll show you.”
Ah, I see you went to that kind of school
Get someone to try figging with you and see if it still works for humans too 😜
Every time I’ve had ginger up my ass, I’ve been a bit more lively.
Ginger seems to like it too.
The internet has told me, in video form, that it definitely does
