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Definition of pseud in English: pseudnoun sjuːdsud An intellectually pretentious or affected person. at the height of the band's career, he was thought to be the biggest pseud in rock Example sentencesExamples - I mean, you just know he watched all the New York pseuds sitting down for a performance of his entirely-silent composition 4'33 ‘, and had serious trouble keeping from giggling.’
- Apart from the fact that the whole enterprise deserves pride of place in pseuds ' corner, do these people really believe that we take them as seriously as they take themselves?
- It's an effect called ‘frame dragging,’ which you can now officially use to trump the pseuds at the next cocktail party.
- The guest list has so far been commendably free of the academics, hack-ademics, cranks and pseuds who once appeared to comprise the resident Montrose intelligentsia.
- What began life as a joke at the expense of a junior TV researcher was to become one of the largest media deceptions in modern times, along the way pricking the pomposity of the many intellectual pseuds who descend on Edinburgh every August.
Synonyms pretentious person, poser, poseur, show-off, sham, fraud
adjective sjuːdsud Intellectually pretentious or affected. to seek inspiration in literature or folklore is to risk being pilloried as pseud
Origin 1960s: abbreviation of pseudo. Rhymes allude, brood, collude, conclude, crude, delude, dude, elude, étude, exclude, extrude, exude, feud, food, illude, include, intrude, Jude, lewd, mood, nude, obtrude, occlude, Oudh, preclude, protrude, prude, pultrude, rood, rude, seclude, shrewd, snood, transude, unglued, unsubdued, who'd, you'd Definition of pseud in US English: pseudnounso͞odsud informal An intellectually pretentious or affected person. at the height of the band's career, he was thought to be the biggest pseud in rock Example sentencesExamples - The guest list has so far been commendably free of the academics, hack-ademics, cranks and pseuds who once appeared to comprise the resident Montrose intelligentsia.
- It's an effect called ‘frame dragging,’ which you can now officially use to trump the pseuds at the next cocktail party.
- I mean, you just know he watched all the New York pseuds sitting down for a performance of his entirely-silent composition 4'33 ‘, and had serious trouble keeping from giggling.’
- Apart from the fact that the whole enterprise deserves pride of place in pseuds ' corner, do these people really believe that we take them as seriously as they take themselves?
- What began life as a joke at the expense of a junior TV researcher was to become one of the largest media deceptions in modern times, along the way pricking the pomposity of the many intellectual pseuds who descend on Edinburgh every August.
Synonyms pretentious person, poser, poseur, show-off, sham, fraud
adjectiveso͞odsud informal Intellectually pretentious or affected. to seek inspiration in literature or folklore is to risk being pilloried as pseud
Origin 1950s: abbreviation of pseudo. |