Definitions
Etymologies
- Abbreviation of pseudointellectual? From Greek (Ancient) ψευδής (pseudēs), false, lying (Wiktionary)
Examples
“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.”
“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.”
“Wanna see what a real non sequitur looks like, pseud?”
“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!
“ETA: consistency in the use or non-use of boy pseud.”
“I dip paper in milk coffee; inhale as it meets my lighter, hisses, grows the pseud of years captured -”
“From the original recipe by Sara Bosse and Onoto Watanna [pseud.]”
“Another example -- I write gay romance and erotica, and I use a pseud because my husband is in civil service.”
“Anyone who has to detach from a pseud has to lose the trust and reputation that identity has collected.”
“I see no practical difference in this and most cases in which a blogger chooses to remain anonymous by using a pseud”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘pseud’.
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King of Gnomes
those gifted with the social eloquence, and the services they provide
grig, bellwether, callipygian, cynosure, gemütlich, dernier cri, toff, vaunt, scuttlebutt, sprezzatura, sprezzatura, sycophant and 64 more...
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Tweets
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qroqqa Or for the rest of us, [sjuːd] (or SYOOD, if you really must use imitation grunting). Jan 8, 2009
feelsurreal (SOOD) n. A person with pretensions to cultural or intellectual sophistication. Jan 8, 2009