Parafake: The 'word'.....[ English Language; 'new' Word] Poem by Bri Edwards

My wife used the 'word' parafake, one evening in our bed.
Now don't get any nasty idea she was speaking of ME, in your nasty head.
In fact I don't believe either of us recall, of WHAT she was speaking,
and 'parafake' isn't even a word in my dictionary. I know; I went peeking.

There is paraffin and paraformaldehyde, and parakeet of course,
but I could not find parafake; nor was there parahorse.
So I looked up 'para', which turns out to be some sort of money.
Then I looked up the prefix 'para- (or par-) ', with no definitions that were funny.
The prefix definitions range from 'beside' and 'beyond', to 'incorrect',
to 'a diatomic molecule' which, without super-eyes, I could NOT detect.
Well there was one definition of para-, the prefix, which I thought would fit.
'Para' can mean 'assistant' (such as in paralegal) . On that definition I bit.

So then I looked up 'fake' in my dictionary to try to pin down 'parafake'.
Guess what. There are widely varying definitions of 'fake', for goodness sake!
Well I've chosen the definition of fake which is 'one that is not genuine'.
Therefore I say a 'parafake' is an 'assistant to one that is not genuine'. If you don't agree, that is fine.
So a paralegal would be a parafake if her boss had no law degree, and
a vintner's assistant would be a parafake if his boss neither made NOR sold wine. You SEE?

(Nov.2012)