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fauxletariat 

the fake working class, especially actors, DJs and TV chefs who behave and speak in a fashion not in keeping with their middle class upbringing.
Isn't that Keith Allen a member of the fauxletariat, I heard his father was a Navy Officer.
fauxletariat by Pooty McPoots February 12, 2008
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fauxletarian 

Falsely claiming to be of a lower socio-economic or working class in order to appear humble, hide true wealth, dodge responsibility, or deflect criticism about an easy life.

Portmanteau of 'faux' and 'proletarian' - fauxletariat can be used for a collection of fauxletarians.
He is such a fauxletarian! He makes 90k a year at an easy corporate job, but rages against the machine and goes on and on about his working class credentials.

She likes to tell everyone she is a starving student, but sends her mother's maid to the thrift store for 'real' clothes. Fauxletarian!
fauxletarian by Grinding August 31, 2010

Fauxlonial

adj. - used to describe any single family, free standing house built AFTER colonial times in the United States, but still having atavistic design characteristics of actual colonial houses. Somehow this style represents about 80% of current housing stock, thus representing a stagnation in architectural design for the last 232 years.
I'm so sick of looking at fauxlonial crap. I would much rather live in a modern house.

Australia is leading the world in residential design because they are not burdened with propagating fauxlomialism,
Fauxlonial by BakaTBakaSTakaTCz December 22, 2008

Fauxlonial

Contemporary architecture which mimics American Colonial architecture.
From the French, faux, meaning false.
Alexandria, VA. has an abundance of fauxlonial architecture, as well as some truly historic buildings

fauxletarian 

-adjective
1. presenting something/one's self as pertaining or belonging to the proletariat.

noun
3. a purported member of the proletariat.
That hipster fronts like he's working class, but really he's as fauxletarian as they come.
fauxletarian by aejae April 28, 2010
well known from south park
rednecks get angrry that future folk took there jobs so they yell
They took ouare jerbs!
Them future folk took ouare jerbs!
jerb by Jimberley Kim April 7, 2005
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