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pseudo-anglicisms

pseudo-anglicisms is the plural of pseudo-anglicism.

Meaning of pseudo-anglicism

Noun

pseudo-anglicism (plural pseudo-anglicisms)

  1. A word in a language other than English that has an English appearance but does not exist in English itself.
    • But does it matter if these so-called English words don’t exist in English at all? Baer doesn’t believe so. “I don’t think most people actually realise which are pseudo-anglicisms and which are real anglicisms,” he says.2016 October 13, Matthew Anderson, “The foreign words that seem like English – but aren’t”, in BBC, archived from the original on 14 Nov 2020

Noun capitalized: pseudo-Anglicisms

pseudo-Anglicisms

  1. (plural) plural of pseudo-Anglicism

Questions about pseudo-anglicisms

What is pseudo-anglicisms the plural of?
Pseudo-anglicisms is the plural of pseudo-anglicism.
What part of speech is pseudo-anglicisms?
Pseudo-anglicisms is a noun.

Words near pseudo-anglicisms in the dictionary

  1. pseudo-active
  2. pseudo-analytical
  3. pseudo-angiosarcoma
  4. pseudo-angiosarcomatous
  5. pseudo-anglicism
  6. pseudo-anglicisms
  7. pseudo-Anosov
  8. pseudo-archaic
  9. pseudo-argument
  10. Pseudo-Aristotle
  11. pseudo-atheism

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pseudo-anglicisms (page history and authors); pseudo-Anglicisms (page history and authors); pseudo-anglicism (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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