From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishpseudpseud /sjuːd $ suːd/ noun [countable] British Englisha person who pretends to know a lot about a subject and talks about it in a complicated way in order to make other people admire them – used to show disapprovalExamples from the Corpuspseud• Mrs Nina Pender was less a pseud than a sphinx.Originpseud(1900-2000)pseudo-