Now updated for CSW19. New words, if any, and new inflections of existing words, are shown in red.
| arrivisme | the state of being an ARRIVISTE, an upstart, a parvenu. |
| arriviste | one who is bent on arriving; i.e. on making a good position for himself in the world; a pushy or ambitious person |
| blaguer blagueur | one who BLAGUES, talks humbug. |
| buckeen | (Irish) a poor man who acts as if wealthy. |
| buppie buppy | a black YUPPIE. |
| charlatan | someone who pretends to have special knowledge or ability, esp one who claims to have medical knowledge. |
| chichi | pretentious, fussy > CHICHIS, CHICHIER, CHICHIEST. |
| grammaticaster | a pretentious grammatical pedant. |
| hokey | overdone, contrived, bogus > HOKIER, HOKIEST; HOKILY. |
| hokeyness hokiness | being HOKEY, overdone, contrived, bogus. |
| labellist | one who wears only clothes with fashionable labels. |
| medicaster | a medical quack. |
| minnick minnock | an affected person; (verb) to be over dainty. |
| mockney | a person who affects a cockney accent. |
| mountebank | a person who sells quack medicines from a platform; a boastful unscrupulous pretender. [Ital. montimbanco, from montare in banco, to mount on a bench]. |
| parvenu | one that has suddenly risen to an unaccustomed position of wealth or power and has not yet gained the manner associated with it > PARVENUS. |
| parvenue | a female PARVENU > PARVENUES. |
| philosophaster | an amateur or superficial philosopher. |
| poetaster | a poetical dabbler. |
| politicaster | a petty politician; a pretender in politics. |
| poseur | one (male) who adopts a pretentious pose. |
| poseuse | one (female) who adopts a pretentious pose. |
| posturer posturist | one who postures, strikes attitudes. |
| preppy | vaguely denoting the style and looks of those who attend or wish to seem as if they have attended a prep school > PREPPIER, PREPPIEST; PREPPILY. |
| pseud pseudo | a pretentious, false person. |
| pseudery | falseness, pretension. |
| pseudish | somewhat pseud. |
| pseudo | see PSEUD. |
| quack | a medical charlatan; (verb) to make a noise like a duck. |
| quackery | charlatanism. |
| quackish | like a quack; boasting; characterized by quackery. |
| quackism | quackery. |
| quacksalver | a quack. [From obsolete Dutch (now kwakzalver), from quack (boast) + salve (ointment).] |
| saltimbanco | a mountebank, a quack > SALTIMBANCOS. |
| sham | to feign, pretend. |
| shammer | one who shams; an impostor. |
| silvertail | a wealthy socialite, a social climber. |
| smatterer | one who has only a slight, superficial knowledge; a sciolist. |
| smoothie smoothy | a suave and elegant person. |
| snob | one who tends to avoid or rebuff those regarded as inferior. |
| snobbish | characteristic of a SNOB > SNOBBISHLY. |
| snobbishness | the state of being SNOBBISH. |
| snobling | a little snob. |
| socialite | a person having a place in fashionable society. |
| sophomoric | like a SOPHOMORE; conceited and overconfident of knowledge but poorly informed and immature. |
| starmonger | a fortune teller; an astrologer; -- used in contempt. |
| tartufe tartuffe | a hypocrite, esp. one who affects religious piety. |
| tinhorn | a contemptible person, esp. one who is pretentious or flashy > TINHORNS. |
| trendoid | a trendy person. |
| upstart | one with social pretensions; (verb) to start or spring up suddenly. |
| wanksta | a person who acts and dresses like a gangster but is not involved in crime. |
| wannabe wannabee | someone who tries to be associated with an admired person or set of people. |
| wondermonger | one who promises miracles. |
| yappie yappy | a young aspiring professional > YAPPIES. |
| yumpie | a young upwardly mobile person. |
| yuppie yuppy | a young urban professional. |
| yuppiedom yuppydom | the state of being a YUPPIE. |
| yuppieish | like a YUPPIE. |
| yuppify | to make appealing to yuppies; to infuse with the qualities or values of yuppies. |
| yuppy | see YUPPIE. |