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forger

Pronunciation: /fɔʁ.ʒe/

“forger” is a French word. Its 5 meanings in English:

verb

  1. to fashion metal with fire and a hammer, to forge
  2. to forge, falsify
  3. to create, to conceive, to make up
  4. to coin (a word or phrase)
  5. to trot

In French

  1. Façonner le fer, ou quelque autre métal, par le moyen du feu et du marteau.
  2. Trotter, en touchant les fers des pieds de devant avec les fers des pieds de derrière, en parlant d’un cheval.
  3. Inventer, fabriquer (un mot, une expression, une histoire), faire.
  4. Controuver, falsifier, contrefaire.

Etymology

Inherited from Old French forger, forgier, from Latin fabricāre. Doublet of fabriquer.

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