Meaning & use
Perfessional
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A person who acts like or claims to be a professional or expert, often used mockingly to suggest they are not as skilled as they claim.
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He struts around the office like a perfessional, but he's barely finished training.
The old coach chuckled at the rookie's swagger, calling him a real perfessional.
A note on using this word
An eye-dialect spelling of 'professional', used informally and often humorously in American English to mock someone's inflated sense of expertise.
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2. adjective
Used as an adjective to describe someone who behaves with exaggerated or false expertise.
He gave a perfessional nod, as if he actually knew what he was doing.
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