counterfeit
noun
- status of a player or hand in poker: when a community card may increase the likelihood of an opponent beating the player's hand
verb
- make a false duplicate
adjective
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Pronunciation: /ˈkaʊn.tɚˌfɪt/ / /ˈkawntəˌfɪt/
adj
Etymology: From Middle English counterfeit, countrefet, from Anglo-Norman countrefait, from Old French contrefait, from Latin contra- (“against”) + Latin facere (“to make”). Piecewise doublet of contrafactum.
- False, especially of money; intended to deceive or carry appearance of being genuine.
“This counterfeit watch looks like the real thing, but it broke a week after I bought it.”
“Finding out Irish people might have been slaves is kind of like finding a counterfeit bill where you're like, "You think I can use this for something?"”
- Inauthentic.
“counterfeit sympathy”
“How Cownterfet Cowntenaunce of the new get / With Crafty Conueyauance dothe smater and flater, / And Cloked Collucyoun is brought in to clater / With Courtely Abusyoun; […]”
- Assuming the appearance of something; deceitful; hypocritical.
“an arrant counterfeit rascal”
noun
Etymology: From Middle English counterfeit, countrefet, from Anglo-Norman countrefait, from Old French contrefait, from Latin contra- (“against”) + Latin facere (“to make”). Piecewise doublet of contrafactum.
- A non-genuine article; a fake.
“Never call a true piece of gold a counterfeit.”
“Some of these counterfeits are fabricated with such exquisite taste and skill, that it is the achievement of criticism to distinguish them from originals.”
- One who counterfeits; a counterfeiter.
- That which resembles another thing; a likeness; a portrait; a counterpart.
“Thou drawest a counterfeit / Best in all Athens.”
“Even Nature's self envied the same, / And grudged to see the counterfeit should shame / The thing itself.”
- An impostor; a cheat.
“I fear thou art another counterfeit; / And yet, in faith, thou bear'st thee like a king.”
verb
Etymology: From Middle English counterfeit, countrefet, from Anglo-Norman countrefait, from Old French contrefait, from Latin contra- (“against”) + Latin facere (“to make”). Piecewise doublet of contrafactum.
- To falsely produce what appears to be official or valid; to produce a forged copy of.
“to counterfeit the signature of another, coins, notes, etc.”
- To produce a faithful copy of.
“The title page of White's original album includes a descriptive title page that identifies the contents as “the pictures of sondry things collected and counterfeited according to the truth,"”
- To feign; to mimic.
“to counterfeit the voice of another person”
“Full well they laughed with counterfeited glee / At all his jokes, for many a joke had he.”
- Of a turn or river card, to invalidate a player's hand by making a better hand on the board.