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poser
/ˈpoʊzɚ/
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What does poser mean?
noun
- A particularly difficult question or puzzle.
- Someone who asks a question or sets a problem.
- Someone who, or something which, poses; a person who sets their body in a fixed position, such as for photography or painting.
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proper noun
- A surname from German
noun
- (derogatory, slang) A poseur (one who affects some behaviour, style, attitude or other condition, often to impress or influence others); a fake fan.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈpoʊzɚ/
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Buttner, thinking to punish him for his audacity, put a 'poser' to him, and awaited the result.
A book rich in observations as well as experience, though Jones was a poser.
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She should have gone to some other dentist; the young fellow on the corner, for instance, the poser, the rider of bicycles, the courser of grey-hounds.
She was pretty, graceful, rich in the timidity born of uncertainty, and with a something childlike in her large eyes which captured the fancy of this starched and conventional poser among men.