Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. One who poses.
- n. A poseur.
- n. A baffling question or problem.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who poses or puts questions; one who questions or interrogates closely; an examiner.
- n. A question that poses or puzzles; a puzzling or difficult question or matter.
Wiktionary
- n. UK A particularly difficult question or puzzle.
- n. Someone who, or something which, poses; a person who sets their body in a fixed position, such as for photography or painting.
- n. pejorative, slang A poseur; someone who affects some behaviour, style, attitude or other condition, often to impress or influence others
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One who, or that which, puzzles; a difficult or inexplicable question or fact.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a particularly difficult or baffling question or problem
- n. a person who habitually pretends to be something he is not
- n. a person who poses for a photographer or painter or sculptor
Examples
“They are what I call poser motorcycle accident lawyers and they are all over the place.”
“The initial poser is how a individual tellurian brain learns to read.”
“More evidence that the new poser is really just the old poser ….”
“Another good question came from the audience in the form of this poser: is the social net phenomenon predicting what is already happening to us on our mobile phones (was Facebook the peak?) or [in the words of the song] is this just the beginning?”
“That is what you call a poser, my dear Timothy, but I cannot help myself: this I can safely say, that I have no animosity against Mr”
“That is what you call a poser, my dear Timothy, but I cannot help myself; this I can safely say, that I have no animosity against Mr”
“Hmm. I actually can't remember how we arrived at "Life As A Poser", but part of the reason we chose it was the double meaning of "poser" - Eva, the main character, is a poser in both senses of the word: she's an aspiring model/actress who literally poses for a living and she's a naïve, small-town girl who doesn't fit in with the glitz and glamour of Hollywood, so she's faking it (a poseur).”
“... and everyone knows that a poser is just one letter away from a loser ...”
“Folks, it’s the sound of a populace that is saying not only no, but h** no to the designs of those who think that now they are in poser, they can “re-make” America.”
Think Progress » Coburn: ‘I love gridlock’ because it means ‘we’re not passing things.’
“Being a poser is a cornerstone of consumerism. on June 25, 2010 9: 53 AM”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘poser’.
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UK - slang
fanny, nick, mufti, siphon, mug, smashing, butcher, stick up, knocker, porridge, tit, punter and 208 more...
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EN-HU - important words for a HU inte...
Words only (I left out the expressions) from Geza Kerenyi's EN-HU interpreters' dictionary. Most of them pose some difficulty when interpreted between HU and EN in either or both directions.
abalone, abrasive, abstractionist, abstruse, abysmal, academia, accessibility, accessible, acclimate, accolade, accompanist, achiever and 1469 more...
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Who hid the keys?
Words for people who like to hide ideas, objects, and other living things
censor, bibliotaph, smuggler, stoic, obfuscator, cryptographer, novelist, magician, statistician, beautician, mule, abductor and 29 more...
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Potpourri
eponymous, aa, pulchritude, gizmo, macabre, sui generis, solecism, solipsism, eldritch, samizdat, queue, obsequious and 469 more...
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ShuckFinn's Words
abecedarian, conflate, mondegreen, whit, truculent, downright, pugnacious, effluvium, canker, inveigle, obfuscate, melancholy and 227 more...
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My Words
Words that I use regularly and consider mine.
zen, poser, savvy, angst, flustered, bitter, whatsoever, farfetched, indeed, scenario, inevitable, salvage and 134 more...
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The Golem's Eye
Words and phrases from Jonathan Stroud's book, The Golem's Eye.
ordure, widdershins, cop, stipple, ostler, struts, minaret, chemise, remonstrate, concussion, wicket, vamoose and 249 more...
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Words I Don't Like
More like THINGS I Don't Like.
I actually DON'T dislike some of the words...just dislike what they are, like ignorance. Poser is one of the words that annoys the fuck out of me. It's use...antidisestablishm..., poser, whatever, angel, religion, evil, ego, doubt, regret, meaningless, brief, nothing and 5 more...
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mmalone's Words
miasma, kitsch, equipoise, pinion, harbinger, mirabilis, annus mirabilis, skein, bulwark, capricious, fortuitous, planetesimal and 233 more...
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tough nut to crack
conundrum, enigma, riddle, sudoku, brainteaser, braintwister, mindboggler, poser
Tweets
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hernesheir The surname of a plastic surgeon near where I reside. Dec 7, 2010
amcd56 Poseur is an alternate spelling. And an alternate definition is "a person who pretends to be something he is not". Mar 19, 2007
oroboros a question or problem that is puzzling or confusing.
(Origin: 1580–90; pose2 + -er1) Mar 18, 2007
uselessness Isn't this actually spelled poseur? Mar 18, 2007
oroboros A puzzle. "How do it know? A real poser, that 'un". Mar 17, 2007