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Pretendian

noun

Etymology

Blend of pretend + (Ind)ian.

  1. derived from indien
  2. derived from indien
  3. compounded as pretendian — “pretend + Indian”

Definitions

  1. A person who falsely claims to have Native American or Indigenous Canadian ancestry.

    • Natalie waited, expecting the usual white platitude, It's okay; I'm one-sixteenth Cherokee myself, or perhaps a dose of American Indian Princess Syndrome, or an acknowledgment of the glut of Pretendians of late.
    • A Canadian woman who fraudulently claimed her daughters were Inuit has been sentenced to three years in jail, in what is believed to be the first ever custodial sentence for a “Pretendian”.

  2. Alternative letter-case form of Pretendian

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA