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pseudo English en · ADJ

Pronunciation

Etymology

From pseudo- + English.

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of pseudo-English.
    • They soon reached a dining room done out in a pseudo English style, full of small plaster statues, ships in bottles and a display of faded brown family photographs in front of which two flickering candles floated in bowls. 2008, Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, Nick Caistor, Tattoo, →ISBN, page 27:
    • Later at the close of the eighteenth century and the early part of the nineteenth century we find additional marks of eagles, eagles' heads, sheaves of wheat, stars, and other stamps with pseudo English hall-marks. 2012, Stephen G. C. Ensko, American Silversmiths and Their Marks, →ISBN:

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most pseudo English Degree=Sup lexicographic
more pseudo English Degree=Cmp lexicographic

pseudo English en · NOUN

Pronunciation

Etymology

From pseudo- + English.

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, alternative, rare, uncountable) Alternative form of pseudo-English.
    • The Nobleman who had been complimented in elegant Latinity by Watson, our best sonnetter, could not have delighted much in the pie-bald, pseudo English prose of this wretched Rhymester who calls himself Soothern. 1880, Remains, Historical and Literary, Connected with the Palatine Counties of Lancaster and Chester:
    • Hardware description of a simplified AM2903 in VHDL and pseudo English 2000, S. Ghosh, Hardware description languages: concepts and principles, →ISBN, page xxi: