[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

pseudo- \pseu"do-\ gr. pseydh`s lying, false, akin to psey`dein
   to belie; cf. psydro`s lying, psy`qos a lie.
   a combining form or prefix signifying false, counterfeit,
   pretended, spurious; as, pseudo-apostle, a false apostle;
   pseudo-clergy, false or spurious clergy; pseudo-episcopacy,
   pseudo-form, pseudo-martyr, pseudo-philosopher. also used
   adjectively.
   1913 webster

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

pseudo
     adj : often used in combination not genuine but having the
           appearance of; "a pseudo esthete"; "pseudoclassic"
     n : a person who makes deceitful pretenses syn: imposter, impostor,
          pretender, fake, faker, fraud, sham, shammer,
          pseud, role player
see also:
imposter impostor pretender fake faker fraud 
sham shammer pseud role player 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

62 moby thesaurus words for "pseudo":
   affected, apocryphal, artificial, assumed, bastard, bogus,
   brummagem, colorable, colored, counterfeit, counterfeited,
   distorted, dressed up, dummy, embellished, embroidered, ersatz,
   factitious, fake, faked, false, falsified, feigned, fictitious,
   fictive, forged, garbled, hokey, illegitimate, imitation, junky,
   make-believe, man-made, mock, perverted, phony, pinchbeck,
   plagiarized, pretended, put-on, quasi, queer, self-styled, sham,
   shoddy, simulated, snide, so-called, soi-disant, spurious,
   supposititious, synthetic, tin, tinsel, titivated, twisted,
   unauthentic, ungenuine, unnatural, unreal, warped, wrong

[4] : Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001)

pseudo /soo'doh/ n. usenet: truncation of `pseudonym' 1. an
   electronic-mail or usenet persona adopted by a human for amusement
   value or as a means of avoiding negative repercussions of one's
   net.behavior; a `nom de usenet', often associated with forged postings
   designed to conceal message origins. perhaps the best-known and funniest
   hoax of this type is b1ff. see also tentacle. 2. notionally, a
   flamage-generating ai program simulating a usenet user. many flamers
   have been accused of actually being such entities, despite the fact that
   no ai program of the required sophistication yet exists. however, in
   1989 there was a famous series of forged postings that used a
   phrase-frequency-based travesty generator to simulate the styles of
   several well-known flamers; it was based on large samples of their back
   postings compare dissociated press. a significant number of people
   were fooled by the forgeries, and the debate over their authenticity was
   settled only when the perpetrator came forward to publicly admit the
   hoax.


see also:
usenet b1ff tentacle flamage dissociated press 

[5] : The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)

pseudo
     
         /soo'doh/ usenet pseudonym.
     
        1. an electronic-mail or usenet persona adopted by a human
        for amusement value or as a means of avoiding negative
        repercussions of one's net.behaviour; a "nom de usenet",
        often associated with forged postings designed to conceal
        message origins.  perhaps the best-known and funniest hoax of
        this type is biff.
     
        2. notionally, a flamage-generating ai program simulating
        a usenet user.  many flamers have been accused of actually
        being such entities, despite the fact that no ai program of
        the required sophistication yet exists.  however, in 1989
        there was a famous series of forged postings that used a
        phrase-frequency-based travesty generator to simulate the
        styles of several well-known flamers; it was based on large
        samples of their back postings compare dissociated press.
        a significant number of people were fooled by the forgeries,
        and the debate over their authenticity was settled only when
        the perpetrator came forward to publicly admit the hoax.
     
        jargon file
     
        1995-03-13
     
     
see also:
usenet electronic-mail biff flamage ai dissociated press 
jargon file 

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