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fakelaki

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From Greek φακελάκι (fakeláki, “little envelope”).

noun fakelakia · fakellaki

An envelope containing cash, offered as a bribe in Greece. Various forms of corruption permeated the system, where cash gifts in fakelaki or ‘little envelopes’ were a fact of life, and where, crucially, the rich regarded paying tax as something that only the poor and stupid would ever choose to do.

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@misc{fakelaki_2026,
  title = {fakelaki},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/fakelaki},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}