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pseud, a. (n.) colloq.|sjuːd|
[f. the Gr. stem ψευδ- false, or as a shortening of pseudo quasi-adj. or pseudo-.]
= pseudo adj. B. Also absol. as n. Pseuds' or Pseud's Corner, used of the pretentious or insincere generally (with allusion to the use in quot. 19682).
1962Spectator 26 Oct. 656 Present-day trend-setters, pseud as they come. 1964Ibid. 20 Mar. 379/1 The pseuds and intellectual craze-mongers seem to have dropped cinéma-vérité almost as quickly as they took it up. 1968Jazz Monthly Apr. 28/2 As well as being the creator of an avant-garde film on human buttocks, Miss Ono has a long list of other achievements which must put her in the running for the title of Pseud of the Century. 1968Private Eye 22 Nov. 3/3 (heading) Pseuds' Corner. 1971Guardian 21 Oct. 14/2 Woodstock, the drug scene, the race war, Vietnam... The genre is familiar, and the path through it can verge dangerously close to Pseud's Corner. 1973P. Dickinson Green Gene i. i. 20 A few big firms..which..don't mind spending a bit on a pseud paper which makes people..think it's all not so bad as all that... It's a real pseud. 1976Listener 25 Mar. 362/2 His ability to ad lib flowery prose with panoramic views overlooking Pseud's Corner. 1977Ibid. 7 Apr. 447/1 A dreamy piano solo, recalling both Beiderbecke's ‘In a Mist’ and (I know this sounds pseud) early Schoenberg. 1980Oxford Times 11 Jan. 13/1 Both strike me as the slightly pseud face of rock 'n' roll. |