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pseudonymuncle (soo-duh-NIM-uhnk-uhl) - (obs., rare) n., an insignificant person writing under a pseudonym.


A coinage from 1875 and only occasionally used since, from pseudonym, false + name + -uncle, diminutive suffix adapted from Latin -culus.

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