factoid
[fak-toid]
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Origin of factoid
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Though it does note that she has a tattoo—and that factoid is helpfully paired with the phrase “tough as nails.”
And by consumer and supplier agreement, no fact, factoid, or truthiness is too small to register.
McCarthy contributes the factoid, “We have four million more government jobs in America than manufacturing jobs.”
factoid
- a piece of unreliable information believed to be true because of the way it is presented or repeated in print
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Word Origin for factoid
C20 (coined by Norman Mailer): from fact + -oid
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Word Origin and History for factoid
1973, from fact + -oid, first explained, if not coined, by Norman Mailer.
Factoids ... that is, facts which have no existence before appearing in a magazine or newspaper, creations which are not so much lies as a product to manipulate emotion in the Silent Majority. [Mailer, "Marilyn," 1973]
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