phony-baloney vs pseudo

phony-baloney

adj
  • fake; fraudulent 

pseudo

adj
  • Other than what is apparent; spurious; sham. 

  • Insincere. 

noun
  • An intellectually pretentious person; a pseudointellectual. 

  • pseudo-city code 

  • A poseur; one who is fake. 

  • A pseudonym; a false name used for online anonymity. 

How often have the words phony-baloney and pseudo occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )