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pseudo-Tudo en · ADJ

Etymology

From pseudo- + Tudor, with the latter element reduced, resulting in internal rhyme. Compare variant pseudy tudy. Attested from the mid 20th century (see quotations below).

Meanings

1. (derogatory, not-comparable, uncommon, usually) In a style similar to Tudor or mock-Tudor architecture; faux Tudor.
   • also pseudo-tudo describing an architectural style popular in the UK Home Counties, featuring fake beams and the other appurtenances of (Hollywood-style) Elizabethan and Tudor England. [2023 March 28, Jonathon Green, “pseudie tudie”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang:
   • The game we play, it’s got its risks, but it’s a heady, intoxicating game, better than nine-to-fiving it and sex, cocktails and rows in a pseudo-Tudo cottage near Sevenoaks. 1964, Robin Cook, The Crust on its Uppers:
   • Then I went to the Grafton Cinema to have supper in the pseudy tudy interior. 1955, J P Donleavy, The Ginger Man, France, page 175:

Forms

Spelling	Features	Labels	Source
pseudy tudy		alternative	lexicographic
Pseudo-Tudo		alternative	lexicographic
pseudo tudo		alternative	lexicographic
pseudo-tudo		alternative	lexicographic
pseudie tudie		alternative	lexicographic
more pseudo-Tudo	Degree=Cmp		lexicographic
most pseudo-Tudo	Degree=Sup		lexicographic

pseudo-Tudo en · NOUN

Etymology

From pseudo- + Tudor, with the latter element reduced, resulting in internal rhyme. Compare variant pseudy tudy. Attested from the mid 20th century (see quotations below).

Meanings

1. (derogatory, uncommon, uncountable) An architectural style using elements of Tudor or Tudor revival architecture, or a building employing such style, especially one judged to be inauthentic or of lower quality.
   • […] dormers and leaded panes abounded, and so did angles, bright tiles and horizontal windows, the gnomes having combined Pseudo-Tudo with Lutyens-Functional. 1946, Stella Gibbons, Westwood: Or, the Gentle Powers, page 239:
   • I react (badly) to early-20th-century commercial versions of the period styles by name calling: Pseudo-Tudo, Frizzie-Lizzie, Phooey-Louis, and Phony-Colonie. 1987, John Crosby Freeman, “Post-Victorian interiors”, in Old-House Journal, page 58:
   • When the public has been so educated that nobody will want to borrow money for Repro-Jacco or Pseudo-Tudo, the building societies will be only too eager to lend 1960, “New Towns and the Metropolitan Problem”, in Town & Country Planning, page 117:

Forms

Spelling	Features	Labels	Source
pseudo-tudo		alternative	lexicographic
Pseudo-Tudo		alternative	lexicographic
pseudie tudie		alternative	lexicographic
pseudy tudy		alternative	lexicographic
pseudo tudo		alternative	lexicographic