Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An abbreviation of
pseudonym . - noun See
pseudo- .
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- noun An intellectually pretentious person; a
poseur
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a person who makes deceitful pretenses
Etymologies
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Examples
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He constantly goes on about how he is the only credible lyricist in the Western world and implies that everyone else is some kind of pseud/plagiarist, And about being working class - he doesn't seem to do a fat lot of work to me.
The Fall 1999
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ETA: consistency in the use or non-use of boy pseud.
mrissa: That stinks. mrissa 2010
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LOL — this word “hypothetical”, pseud: it does not mean what you think it means.
Matthew Yglesias » Veronique de Rugy is So Anti-American That She’s Not Even an American! 2010
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I think pseud in nc has it right, that at this point, a campaign of non-violence would be ineffectual given the media biases at work.
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Wanna see what a real non sequitur looks like, pseud?
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From the original recipe by Sara Bosse and Onoto Watanna [pseud.]
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Another example -- I write gay romance and erotica, and I use a pseud because my husband is in civil service.
Pseudonyms: A Chat with “Benjamin Tate” pandemonium_bks 2010
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I dip paper in milk coffee; inhale as it meets my lighter, hisses, grows the pseud of years captured -
Freckle 2010
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From the original recipe by Sara Bosse and Onoto Watanna [pseud.]
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Anyone who has to detach from a pseud has to lose the trust and reputation that identity has collected.
Archive 2009-06-01 Doctor Science 2009
feelsurreal commented on the word pseud
(SOOD) n. A person with pretensions to cultural or intellectual sophistication.
January 8, 2009
qroqqa commented on the word pseud
Or for the rest of us, sjuːd (or SYOOD, if you really must use imitation grunting).
January 8, 2009