pseud
noun
[ sjuːd ]
• an intellectually pretentious or affected person.
• "at the height of the band's career, he was thought to be the biggest pseud in rock"
pseud
adjective
• intellectually pretentious or affected.
• "to seek inspiration in literature or folklore is to risk being pilloried as pseud"
Origin:
1950s: abbreviation of pseudo.
pseud-
combining form
• variant spelling of pseudo- reduced before a vowel (as in pseudepigrapha ).
pseudo-
combining form
• supposed or purporting to be but not really so; false; not genuine.
• "pseudonym"
• resembling or imitating.
• "pseudo-hallucination"
Origin:
from Greek pseudēs ‘false’, pseudos ‘falsehood’.
