pseudo-oxford

Updated: June 27, 2025

Not the now sufficiently discredited individual with a monocle and a pseudo-Oxford accent, who tries to be more English than the English. Not the more subtly dangerous American who refers his tastes, his enthusiasms, his culture, and the prestige of his compatriots to an English test before he dare assert them.

Henry Seidel Canby - Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism