pseudo-tudo
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.09 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
5
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An architectural style using elements of Tudor or Tudor revival architecture, or a building employing such style, especially one judged to be inauthentic or of lower quality.
Derogatory; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "Then I went to the Grafton Cinema to have supper in the pseudy tudy interior."
- "The game we play, it’s got its risks, but it’s a heady, intoxicating game, better than nine-to-fiving it and sex, cocktails and rows in a pseudo-Tudo cottage near Sevenoaks."
- "also pseudo-tudo describing an architectural style popular in the UK Home Counties, featuring fake beams and the other appurtenances of (Hollywood-style) Elizabethan and Tudor England."
- "[…] dormers and leaded panes abounded, and so did angles, bright tiles and horizontal windows, the gnomes having combined Pseudo-Tudo with Lutyens-Functional."
- "When the public has been so educated that nobody will want to borrow money for Repro-Jacco or Pseudo-Tudo, the building societies will be only too eager to lend"
- "I react (badly) to early-20th-century commercial versions of the period styles by name calling: Pseudo-Tudo, Frizzie-Lizzie, Phooey-Louis, and Phony-Colonie."
Etymology
Usage
Inflected Forms
more pseudo-Tudo (comparative)
most pseudo-Tudo (superlative)
pseudo tudo (alternative)
pseudy tudy (alternative)
pseudie tudie (alternative)