pseud
/sjuːd
/noun British informal
A pretentious person, especially one who claims to know a great deal about art, literature, etc. this method is the refuge of the charlatan, the pseud, and the modestly talented [as modifier]: pseud gabbing about man’s primal nature...
- 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.
- 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.’
- It's an effect called ‘frame dragging,’ which you can now officially use to trump the pseuds at the next cocktail party.
Synonyms
pretentious person, poser, poseur, show-off, sham, fraud
informal phoney
Origin
1960s: abbreviation of pseudo.
Rhymes
- post-critical
- post crown
- postcruciate
- post-Cubist
- postcubital
- postcure
- postcyclic
- post-dam
- post-damming
- post-date
- post-decretal
- post-deflection
- postdental
- post-depositional
- post-Diana
- post-diastolic
- postdict
- postdiction
- post diem
- post-digital
- post-diluvial
- post-diluvian
- post-Disruption
- post-disseisin
- postdoc