Pro wrestling can trace some of its stylistic origins back to carnivals and Catch Wrestling, where the term \"kayfabe\" is thought to have originated as carny slang for \"protecting the secrets of the business.\" The term \"kayfabe\" itself may ultimately originate from the Pig Latin form of \"fake\" (\"ake-fay\") or the phrase \"be fake.\"Kayfabe may also derive from another trick used by traveling carnival workers. Hence saying I'd already checked Google. But thanks anyway for others who may be interested. In the end, etymologists have struggled to pin down the origin of kayfabe.
Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. it makes more sense how it sounds, than how it's written. New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast, More posts from the SquaredCircle community, Press J to jump to the feed. So I know it is a carnival term but what does it actually mean and where did it start? fake in pig latin==> ake fay, slightly messed around kay fabe. Tried searching Google but no luck. Kaye Fabe was a woman who used to work for the WWF back in the 1980s. Keep All Your Fans Always Believing Everything. EDIT: Easier to respond up here. Y'all should have told him it's Japanese.
KAYfABE is … It's shitty carny pig Latin for Be fake.
Is that from somewhere else or is that your personal take on it? As in its a fable, buts it's OK. Being that we want to keep it REAL, it is the perfect name for our show! In English, the phrase came to mean "alert" or "lookout" and is usually used in the expression "on the qui vive." kayfabe = "be fake" in some bastardized form of Pig Latin. Your close. Bastardised Pig Latin for "Be Fake". Kayfabe is also occasionally used, very loosely, as a verb to denote all kinds of trickery. I always thought it was a contraction of "ok" and "fable". Bastardised Pig Latin for "Be Fake". Cheers guys. She always pushed for the business to be kept secret and avoid being exposed to paying customers.
kayfabe = "be fake" in some bastardized form of Pig Latin.
Cheers guys. Fake in some form of Pig Latin. carnies. EDIT: Easier to respond up here.
Yeah...I'd already checked that.
Many storylines make use of kayfabe romantic relationships between two performers. However, more than once, kayfabe romantic relationships have resulted either from a real-life relationsh…
Very often, both participants have other real-life relationships, and the "relationship" between the two is simply a storyline. Kayfabe is a professional wrestling term derived from carnival lingo that means... to keep secret. I wanted the history of the word which is more than just "old carnie saying".
Wow, that works.
My non wrestling watching brother just asked what Kayfabe actually means and I couldn't answer him. You can even see her name appear in the credits of one of the first Slammys.