pseudo English

A form of pseudo-English — Lexical borrowings from English that do not correspond directly to English word usage.

Meanings

nounpseudo English (uncountable)
  1. alternativerareuncountableAlternative form of pseudo-English.

    Hardware description of a simplified AM2903 in VHDL and pseudo English

    2000, S. Ghosh, Hardware description languages: concepts and principles, →ISBN, page xxi
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    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
adjectivepseudo English (comparative more pseudo English, superlative most pseudo English)

comparative more pseudo English · superlative most pseudo English

  1. alternativeAlternative form of pseudo-English.

    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
    1 more example

    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

Origin

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APA

pseudo English. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pseudo%20English

MLA

“pseudo English.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pseudo%20English. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “pseudo English,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pseudo%20English.

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