pseudo-anglicism
Noun
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Noun
pseudo-anglicism (plural pseudo-anglicisms)
- A word in a language other than English that has an English appearance but is not current in English itself. This may be, for example, because the word was borrowed from a neologism that never entered English common use, or because it was independently derived from an English word, or because it was deliberately coined to resemble English.
- pseudo-English
- pseudo-Latinism, pseudo-latinism
- French: faux anglicisme
- German: Pseudoanglizismus, Pseudo-Anglizismus, Scheinanglizismus
- Italian: pseudoanglicismo
- Portuguese: pseudoanglicismo
- Russian: псевдоанглици́зм
- Spanish: falso anglicismo, pseudoanglicismo
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