Feint vs Dupe - What's the difference?
feint | dupe |
To make a feint, or mock attack.
(to make a counterfeit move to confuse an opponent)
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(obsolete) Feigned; counterfeit.
* John Locke
(fencing, boxing, war) (of an attack) directed toward a different part from the intended strike
A movement made to confuse the opponent, a dummy
That which is feigned; an assumed or false appearance; a pretense; a stratagem; a fetch.
* Spectator
(fencing, boxing, war) An offensive movement resembling an attack in all but its continuance
The narrowest rule used in the production of lined writing paper (C19: Variant of FAINT)
To swindle, deceive, or trick.
To duplicate.
(photography) A duplicate of a photographic image.
(restaurant industry) A duplicate of an order receipt printed for kitchen staff.
(informal) A duplicate.
As verbs the difference between feint and dupe
is that feint is to make a feint, or mock attack while dupe is to swindle, deceive, or trick.As nouns the difference between feint and dupe
is that feint is a movement made to confuse the opponent, a dummy while dupe is a person who has been deceived.As an adjective feint
is feigned; counterfeit.feint
English
Verb
(en verb)Adjective
(-)- Dressed up into any feint appearance of it.
Noun
(en noun)- Courtley's letter is but a feint to get off.
dupe
English
Etymology 1
(etyl)Verb
(dup)Synonyms
* See alsoEtymology 2
Abbreviation of duplicateVerb
(dup)- Can you dupe this photo for me?