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Dumb Britain; Pseuds Corner; Luvvies; Just Fancy That; Order Of The Brown Nose; Dumb Australia; Order Of The Brown Nose (O.B.N.); Pseud; Pseuds corner

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[s(j)u:d]
¦ noun Brit. informal a pretentious person; a poseur.
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(pseuds)
If you say that someone is a pseud, you mean that they are trying to appear very intellectual but you think that they appear silly. (BRIT INFORMAL)
N-COUNT [disapproval]
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Person who pretends to know much more than he/she does, in order to impress an audience
Those philosophy majors are all such pseuds about Wittgenstein and such.

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List of regular mini-sections in Private Eye

The following is a list of regularly appearing mini-sections appearing in the British satirical magazine Private Eye. These are mostly based on clippings from newspapers sent in by readers, often for a cash fee.

Pronunciation examples for pseud
1. pseudo-bohemian losers.
Ghost World (2001)
2. a pseudo multiplication algorithm
Make it New - A History of Silicon Valley Design _ Barry Katz _ Talks at Google
3. It's pseudo anonymous.
Tomicah Tillemann _ Talks at Google
4. the pseudo Nobel in economics--
Skin in the Game _ Nassim Nicholas Taleb _ Talks at Google
5. it's called a pseudo-cereal.
Flavor Flours _ Alice Medrich _ Talks at Google
Examples of use of pseud
1. But show me a theatre–goer who laughs at them today ("Aye, the heads of the maidens – or their maidenheads; take it as thou wilt!") and I‘ll show you a pompous pseud, trying to impress the girl next to him.
2. They are meant, like her, to hanker after a druggy pseud whose jottings are little more than self–serving drivel and who nevertheless has the temerity to write his own name on a picture of ‘Ireland‘s writers — James Joyce, Sean O‘Casey, Oscar Wilde‘. In his conceited introduction to The Books Of Albion, Doherty even crows: "There‘s a lot of honesty here . . . a few gems of the old Irish philosophy." Some of the book reads more like porno–fantasy than philosophy: "Just one of those rare and sacred moments that we all, us men, can dream about for an eternity.