PSEUD noun (sood)

noun

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

adjective
1. Informal. of, relating to, or characteristic of a pseud.


Quotes


But many of his students thought him a pseud for his high diction and his passion for complicated European writers.
--*Tobias Wolff,*Old School, 2003


He hated the idea of being considered a pseud when it came to food and drink, but there were those who thought him overenthusiastic on both counts.
--*Tim Heald,*Poison at the Pueblo, 2011



Origin

Pseud is a derogatory colloquialism derived by shortening from pseudointellectual. It dates from the mid-20th century.