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This isn't about the word of the day, but the usage example. "Is Alain de Botton the biggest pseud and poseur..." Pseud??? I can see where it came from, but I've never seen it before. Anyone else?
BTW, maybe a poseur is one who uses words like poseur.
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Pooh-Bah
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BTW, maybe a poseur is one who uses words like poseur.
 So...whats it about then?? Pseud? I often hear words being abbreviated in common use/by people who want to appear 'cool'....pseud or pseudo = false.
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old hand
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Yep, I've heard it used, but only informally as a (sort of) abbreviation, turned into a noun.
I'm immortal until proven otherwise
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Carpal Tunnel
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surprisingly, dates from 1964!
British
: a person who pretends to be an intellectual
short for pseudo-intellectual
First Known Use: 1964
[M-W 11th}
edit: and, of course, OED has the apposite citation..
1964 Spectator 20 Mar. 379/1 The pseuds and intellectual craze-mongers seem to have dropped cinéma-vérité almost as quickly as they took it up.
but it was adjectivized even earlier..
1962 Spectator 26 Oct. 656 Present-day trend-setters, pseud as they come.
Last edited by tsuwm; 02/12/2012 8:20 PM.
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