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Fakey vs Wakey - What's the difference?

fakey | wakey |

As an adjective fakey

is (colloquial) fake.

As a noun wakey is

(military|slang) the day on which one wakes up and travels home.

fakey

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (colloquial) Fake.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2009, date=June 27, author=Alastair Macaulay, title=His Moves Expressed as Much as His Music, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=It is easy to dislike many of the later videos: even as early as the late ’80s, the kind of drama he puts onto screen often looks fakey , and isn’t always rescued by his skill as a performer. }}

    References

    * Webster's Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged . Merriam-Webster, 2002. http://unabridged.merriam-webster.com (23 Oct. 2010)

    wakey

    English

    Noun

  • (military, slang) The day on which one wakes up and travels home.
  • * Gary Blinco, Down a Country Lane
    • 'You beauty, only 364 and a wakey to go,' the countdown had begun and would continue, as few days passed without someone calling the time. I spared a thought for our temporary enemy whose tour would endure to the end of the war
  • * 2010 , Ian McGibbon, New Zealand's Vietnam War (page 542)
    • Morale was also usually high, helped by the men's recognition that their service in Vietnam had strict limits – one year, or, to use a soldiers' expression of the time, 364 days and a 'wakey' (the day the men woke to prepare to fly out).
  • * 2011 , Richard "Barney" Bigwood, We Were Reos: Australian Infantry Reinforcements in VIETNAM (page 47)
    • When you became a 'short timer' (20 days and a wakey ) you delighted in sticking it up to the new arrivals.
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