Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who poses or puts questions; one who questions or interrogates closely; an examiner.
- noun A question that poses or puzzles; a puzzling or difficult question or matter.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who, or that which, puzzles; a difficult or inexplicable question or fact.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun UK A particularly
difficult question orpuzzle . - noun Someone who, or something which,
poses ; a person who sets their body in a fixed position, such as for photography or painting. - noun pejorative, slang A
poseur ; someone who affects somebehaviour , style,attitude or other condition, often toimpress orinfluence others
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a particularly difficult or baffling question or problem
- noun a person who habitually pretends to be something he is not
- noun a person who poses for a photographer or painter or sculptor
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Examples
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They are what I call poser motorcycle accident lawyers and they are all over the place.
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The initial poser is how a individual tellurian brain learns to read.
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More evidence that the new poser is really just the old poser ….
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The initial poser is how a individual tellurian brain learns to read.
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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?
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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?
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"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
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"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
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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).
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... and everyone knows that a poser is just one letter away from a loser ...
oroboros commented on the word poser
A puzzle. "How do it know? A real poser, that 'un".
March 17, 2007
uselessness commented on the word poser
Isn't this actually spelled poseur?
March 18, 2007
oroboros commented on the word poser
a question or problem that is puzzling or confusing.
(Origin: 1580–90; pose2 + -er1)
March 19, 2007
amcd56 commented on the word poser
Poseur is an alternate spelling. And an alternate definition is "a person who pretends to be something he is not".
March 19, 2007
hernesheir commented on the word poser
The surname of a plastic surgeon near where I reside.
December 8, 2010