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English

Etymology

From .

Pronunciation

IPA: /ˈsuːdəʊ/
IPA: /ˈsuːdoʊ/

Noun

An intellectually pretentious person; a poseur; false, fake

Related terms

pseud - variant

References

The Australian Concise Oxford Dictionary

Adjective

sham; spurious
insincere

References

The Australian Concise Oxford Dictionary

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French

Noun

A nickname, handle or pseudonym, especially on the Internet.

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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Pseudo- \Pseu"do-\ [Gr. pseydh`s lying, false, akin to psey`dein
to belie; cf. psydro`s lying, psy`qos a lie.]
A combining form or prefix signifying false, counterfeit,
pretended, spurious; as, pseudo-apostle, a false apostle;
pseudo-clergy, false or spurious clergy; pseudo-episcopacy,
pseudo-form, pseudo-martyr, pseudo-philosopher. Also used
adjectively.
[1913 Webster]

WordNet pseudo
adj : (often used in combination) not genuine but having the
appearance of; "a pseudo esthete"; "pseudoclassic"
n : a person who makes deceitful pretenses [syn: imposter, impostor,
pretender, fake, faker, fraud, sham, shammer,
pseud, role player]

Moby Dictionary
affected , apocryphal , artificial , assumed , bastard , bogus ,
brummagem , colorable , colored , counterfeit , counterfeited ,
distorted , dressed up , dummy , embellished , embroidered , ersatz ,
factitious , fake , faked , false , falsified , feigned , fictitious ,
fictive , forged , garbled , hokey , illegitimate , imitation , junky ,
make-believe , man-made , mock , perverted , phony , pinchbeck ,
plagiarized , pretended , put-on , quasi , queer , self-styled , sham ,
shoddy , simulated , snide , so-called , soi-disant , spurious ,
supposititious , synthetic , tin , tinsel , titivated , twisted ,
unauthentic , ungenuine , unnatural , unreal , warped , wrong

Jargon pseudo /soo'doh/ n. [Usenet: truncation of `pseudonym'] 1. An
electronic-mail or Usenet persona adopted by a human for amusement
value or as a means of avoiding negative repercussions of one's
net.behavior; a `nom de Usenet', often associated with forged postings
designed to conceal message origins. Perhaps the best-known and funniest
hoax of this type is B1FF. See also tentacle. 2. Notionally, a
flamage-generating AI program simulating a Usenet user. Many flamers
have been accused of actually being such entities, despite the fact that
no AI program of the required sophistication yet exists. However, in
1989 there was a famous series of forged postings that used a
phrase-frequency-based travesty generator to simulate the styles of
several well-known flamers; it was based on large samples of their back
postings (compare Dissociated Press). A significant number of people
were fooled by the forgeries, and the debate over their authenticity was
settled only when the perpetrator came forward to publicly admit the
hoax.

FOLDOC pseudo

/soo'doh/ (Usenet) Pseudonym.

1. An electronic-mail or Usenet persona adopted by a human
for amusement value or as a means of avoiding negative
repercussions of one's net.behaviour; a "nom de Usenet",
often associated with forged postings designed to conceal
message origins. Perhaps the best-known and funniest hoax of
this type is BIFF.

2. Notionally, a flamage-generating AI program simulating
a Usenet user. Many flamers have been accused of actually
being such entities, despite the fact that no AI program of
the required sophistication yet exists. However, in 1989
there was a famous series of forged postings that used a
phrase-frequency-based travesty generator to simulate the
styles of several well-known flamers; it was based on large
samples of their back postings (compare Dissociated Press).
A significant number of people were fooled by the forgeries,
and the debate over their authenticity was settled only when
the perpetrator came forward to publicly admit the hoax.

[Jargon File]

(1995-03-13)