单词 | pseud |
释义 | pseudn.adj. 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). < n.adj.1954 |
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