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单词 pseud
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pseudn.adj.

Brit. /s(j)uːd/, U.S. /sud/
Origin: Formed within English, by clipping or shortening. Etymon: pseudo adj.
Etymology: Shortened < pseudo adj. With use as noun compare earlier pseudo n.
colloquial. derogatory.
A. n.
An intellectually pretentious or affected person, a pseudo-intellectual; = pseudo n. 2.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > behaviour > affected behaviour or affectation > [noun] > affected person
affecter1607
snuffler1642
languisher1713
attitudinarian1756
attitudinizer1824
pseudo1829
posturer1833
posturist1857
poseur1869
affectationist1873
Turveydrop1877
posturant1882
poser1888
four-flusher1904
gobdaw1947
nerd1951
pseud1954
jive-ass1964
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > dissimulation, pretence > insincerity > [noun] > insincere person
lip-comfortera1815
pseudo1829
lip-worshippera1846
lip-server1860
phoney1952
pseud1954
jive-ass1964
1954 R. Ingrams in Salopian (Shrewsbury School) 25 July 159 The Pseud. There is a tribe that in the world exists Who might be called the pseudo-culturists... He..Who quotes from Blake or from Professor Freud, This man I label with the title 'Pseud'.
1964 Spectator 20 Mar. 379/1 The pseuds and intellectual craze-mongers seem to have dropped cinéma-vérité almost as quickly as they took it up.
1968 Jazz 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.
1977 Private Eye 1 Apr. 23/4 (advt.) Get it together to put down pseuds, poseurs and general smartasses.
1994 Amer. Spectator Jan. 73/1 The intellectual Wallace Shawn, actor, playwright, and pseud, expatiates compassionately on those large-souled progressives who provided such fine housing, especially in the Gulag Archipelago.
2003 Arena Aug. 89/2 Many modern artists are, frankly, awful pseuds with silly intellectual pretensions.
B. adj.
Intellectually or socially pretentious or affected; = pseudo adj.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > behaviour > affected behaviour or affectation > [adjective]
streiche?a1513
fustian1523
nipping1568
fashionative1584
affected1598
affectate1599
affecting1600
snufflinga1640
whalebone1801
stiltish1824
stilty1845
posturing1851
greenery-yallery1881
mee-mawing1886
meemaw1898
faisandé1912
twee1956
nerdy1960
pseud1962
pseudo1964
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > dissimulation, pretence > insincerity > [adjective]
feignedc1374
unplaina1393
hollowa1529
hollow-hearted1549
foul1550
unsincere1577
insincere1634
unsound1714
lip-deep1802
lip-born1872
phoney1951
pseud1962
1962 Spectator 26 Oct. 656 Present-day trend-setters, pseud as they come.
1977 Listener 7 Apr. 447/1 A dreamy piano solo, recalling both Beiderbecke's ‘In a Mist’ and (I know this sounds pseud) early Schoenberg.
1989 Empire Sept. 92/1 The pseud gabbing about man's suppressed primal nature is hooey.
1998 N. Hornby About Boy (1999) xxxii. 249 He'd used the phrase to prove that he knew it,..but quickly realized that..it sounded flip and pseud and shallow.

Compounds

Pseud's (also Pseuds') Corner n. (the name of) a satirical column published in the British magazine Private Eye from 1968, used allusively to designate or denote the realm of the intellectually pretentious, or pseudo-intellectual writing, behaviour, etc., collectively.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > behaviour > affected behaviour or affectation > [noun] > affected person > collectively
Turveydropdom1892
Pseud's Corner1968
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > dissimulation, pretence > insincerity > [noun] > indulgence in
Pseud's Corner1968
1968 Private Eye 22 Nov. 3/3 (heading) Pseuds' Corner.
1971 Guardian 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.
1982 Financial Times (Nexis) 28 Aug. i. 12 The recording, undecorated by more than an occasional bout of Tibetan song or pipe-playing (and a quote from Noel Odell as introduction, that should go straight to Pseuds' Corner).
1992 Vanity Fair (N.Y.) Mar. 108/3 The contributors wish to rise above the slick phrasemaking of style publications such as Arena and The Face , yet avoid being Pseuds' Corner pretentious.
2005 Guardian 10 Sept. (Guide Suppl.) 69/3 Art School. 6pm, BBC2... For the next 10 week days, you can watch them fling clay about, get right up pseud's corner with their hilarious introspections and generally bitch at each other.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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