pseudnoun [ C ]
uk/sjuːd/us/suːd/UK informal disapprovinga person who tries to seem to have detailed knowledge or excellent judgment of a subject, especially in art, literature, music, etc.:
He's such a pseud, with his talk of '"lambent harmonies" and "melting arpeggios".
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Faking & pretending
- a wolf in sheep's clothing idiom
- affect
- assume
- believe
- bluff
- changeling
- charlatan
- falsify
- feign
- fraud
- go through the motions idiom
- guise
- phoney
- play at sth
- play possum idiom
- play sth out
- play-acting
- professed
- purport
- quack
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pseudy
adjective uk/ˈsjuː.di/us/ˈsuː.di/
I have to say, I don't have much time for the pseudy vocabulary of wine snobs.