pseud

pseud
/soohd/, Informal.
n.
1. a person of fatuously earnest intellectual, artistic, or social pretensions.
adj.
2. of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a pseud.
[1960-65; by shortening of PSEUDOINTELLECTUAL or parallel compounds with PSEUDO-]

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