pseud-

pseud-

pref.

Variant of pseudo-.

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pseud

(sud)
Chiefly Brit. Informal. n.

1. a person of fatuously earnest intellectual, artistic, or social pretensions.

adj.

2. of or characteristic of a pseud.

[1960–65; by shortening of pseudointellectual]

pseud-

var. of pseudo- before a vowel: pseudepigraphy.

pseud.

pseudonym.

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