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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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