Dictionary: PS – PSZ

• PSEUD
adj. pretentious …1962 colloq.
n. a false, artificial, or pretentious person …1964 colloq.
 
• PSEUDO
adj. pretentious …1945 sl.
n. a pretentious person …1959 sl.
 
• PSEUDOLOGER
n. a maker of false statements; a liar …1656
 
• PSEUDONYMOUS
adj. bearing or writing under a false or fictitious name; using a pseudonym; bearing the name of someone other than the real author …1706
 
• PSEUDY
adj. pretentious …1989 sl.
 
• PSHAW!
int. an exclamation of disgust, impatience, disbelief, etc. …1607 rare
 
• PSHEW!
int. used of a very bad smell …1965 Amer. dial.
 
• PSYCH
vb. to psychoanalyze …1917 sl.
 
• PSYCHO
n. a mad or insane person …1942 sl.
 
• PSYCHO-KICK
n. a deeply satisfying erotic response …Bk1974 Amer. sl.
 
• PSYCHOPATHIC
n. traffic …20C Brit. rhyming sl.
 
• PSYCH OUT
vb. 1. to analyze or solve a problem …colloq.
vb. 2. to guess correctly the intentions of another; to outguess …colloq.
vb. 3. to intimidate or frighten …colloq.
vb. 4. to lose control psychologically; to break down …colloq.
vb. 5. to be or become mad …1970 sl.
 
• PSYCHOBABBLE
n. the jargon of psychology, esp. as used and popularized in various types of psychotherapy …1975 colloq., derogatory