pseud

noun [C]

/sjuːd/

/suːd/ UK informal disapproving

Definition

› a person who tries to seem to have detailed knowledge or excellent judgment of a subject, especially in art, literature, music, etc.: He's such a pseud, with his talk of 'lambent harmonies' and 'melting arpeggios'.Faking and pretending pseudy

/ˈsjuː.di/

/ˈsuː.di/ adjective › I have to say, I don't have much time for the pseudy vocabulary of wine snobs.Affected and insincere

(Definition of pseud noun from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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