Although it was practically displaced by its augmentative farfantón, it still finds exactly the same meaning of "braggart, boastful and pedantic mouthful". The origin at first glance seems like a deformation of fake, word with which it shares some meaning, but surely it has an Arabic origin taken from 1601; 1585; 1601; 1585; ( farafar "to twist into oneself") with the suffix -nte; Although a Latin etymology is also suggested from for, fatus ("who speaks, says").
