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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a person who makes deceitful pretenses [syn: imposter, impostor, pretender, fake, faker, fraud, sham, shammer, pseudo, pseud, role player]

Merriam Webster's

I. noun Etymology: short for pseudo-intellectual Date: 1964 British a person who pretends to be an intellectual II. abbreviation pseudonym; pseudonymous

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. & n. colloq. --adj. intellectually or socially pretentious; not genuine. --n. such a person; a poseur. Etymology: abbr. of PSEUDO

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(pseuds) If you say that someone is a pseud, you mean that they are trying to appear very intellectual but you think that they appear silly. (BRIT INFORMAL) N-COUNT [disapproval]