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poser¹
- /ˈpəʊzə(ɹ)/ UK
- /ˈpoʊzɚ/ US
Rhymes with -əʊzə(ɹ)
noun posers
- A particularly difficult question or puzzle. After a few minutes of apparently serious thought, Chang sidled up to his mamma with this poser: “Say, mamma, if I hadn’t told you about putting it in the waste barrel, you’d never have knowed, and then I’d have had a do’nut.”
- Someone who asks a question or sets a problem. Even as a child, she was a habitual poser of difficult questions.
- Someone who, or something which, poses; a person who sets their body in a fixed position, such as for photography or painting.
- A poseur (one who affects some behaviour, style, attitude or other condition, often to impress or influence others); a fake fan. "My boyfriend, or I should say, ex-boyfriend, used to be all dark and brooding with long, black hair, but now?!" [...] "Um, I'm pretty sure uniforms don't work that way. I think your ex might just be a big poser." "A fact I would be blissfully unaware of if not for these damn uniforms!"
Poser²
Where it comes from
From German Poser.
proper noun Posers
- A surname from German
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noun a particularly difficult question or puzzle
| Deutsch | knifflige Frage, harte Nuss, Knacknuss, verwirrende Frage |
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noun someone who asks a question or sets a problem
| Deutsch | Fragender, Frager, Fragesteller |
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noun someone who, or something which, poses; with their body in a fixed position
| Español | posador |
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| Français | colle |
| Deutsch | Künstlermodell, Modell, Fotomodell |
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@misc{poser_2026,
title = {poser},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/poser},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
