Poser

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Poser \Pos"er\, n.
     One who, or that which, puzzles; a difficult or inexplicable
     question or fact. --Bacon.
     [1913 Webster] Poseur

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  poser
       n 1: a person who habitually pretends to be something he is not
            [syn: {poseur}]
       2: a person who poses for a photographer or painter or
          sculptor; "the president didn't have time to be a model so
          the artist worked from photos" [syn: {model}]
       3: a particularly difficult or baffling question or problem
          [syn: {stumper}, {toughie}, {sticker}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  92 Moby Thesaurus words for "poser":
     Chinese puzzle, Gordian knot, Holy Willie, Joseph Surface, Mawworm,
     Pecksniff, Pharisee, Tartuffe, affecter, attitudinarian,
     attitudinizer, baffling problem, blagueur, bluff, bluffer,
     brain twister, canter, canting hypocrite, charlatan,
     crossword puzzle, crux, dilemma, dissembler, dissimulator, enigma,
     enigmatic question, fake, faker, floorer, formalist, fourflusher,
     fraud, humbug, hypocrite, impersonator, impostor, jigsaw puzzle,
     knot, knotty point, lip server, lip worshiper, malingerer,
     mind-boggler, mountebank, mystery, node, nodus, nonplus,
     nut to crack, oxymoron, paradox, perplexed question, perplexity,
     pharisee, phony, pietist, pious fraud, pons asinorum, poseur,
     posture maker, posturer, posturist, pretender, problem, puzzle,
     puzzlement, puzzler, quack, quacksalver, quackster, quandary,
     question, question mark, ranter, religionist, religious hypocrite,
     ringer, saltimbanco, sham, shammer, sixty-four dollar question,
     sniveler, snuffler, spiritual humbug, sticker, striker of poses,
     stumper, teaser, tough proposition, vexed question,
     whited sepulcher, why
  
  

From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]:

  poser n. [from French `poseur'] A {wannabee}; not hacker slang, but
     used among crackers, phreaks and {warez d00dz}. Not as negative as
     {lamer} or {leech}. Probably derives from a similar usage among
     punk-rockers and metalheads, putting down those who "talk the talk but
     don't walk the walk".