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poser

UK/ˈpəʊzə(ɹ)//ˈpoʊzɚ/

poser noun: a particularly difficult question or puzzle.

Noun

poser (plural posers)

  1. (UK) 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.”1904 December, Samuel Slocombe, “Ethel’s Babies”, in Overland Monthly […], volume XLIV, number 6, San Francisco, Calif.: Overland Monthly Co., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 586, column 2
    • “Always so energetic, Hastings! And what precisely would you have me do?” This was somewhat of a poser, but I was not going to withdraw from my position.1927, Agatha Christie, The Big Four
  2. Someone who asks a question or sets a problem.
    • Even as a child, she was a habitual poser of difficult questions.
  3. Someone who, or something which, poses; a person who sets their body in a fixed position, such as for photography or painting.
  4. (derogatory, slang, chiefly music fandom) 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!"2008 July 9, Dan Shive, El Goonish Shive (webcomic), Comic for Wednesday, Jul 9, 2008
    • Started hormones and these bitches called me a trans poser / They can kill themselves, I'm turning up like a transposer2025, Fraxiom, “i hope you know”, performed by Food House

Proper noun capitalized: Poser

Poser (plural Posers)

  1. A surname from German

poser meaning in Malayalam and Kannada

poser in Malayalam

ദുശ്ചോദ്യക്കാരൻ, വിഷമിപ്പിക്കുന്നവൻ, കുഴക്കുന്നവൻ, ഭാവിക്കുന്നവൻ

poser in Kannada

ಸೋಗುಗಾರ, ಬೂತುಗ, ಬಿಕ್ಕಟ್ಟು, ಒಗಟು, ಪ್ರಶ್ನೆ ಹಾಕುವವನು, ಪೃಚ್ಛಕ

Forms of poser

Noun
pluralposers
Proper noun
pluralPosers

Plural of poser: posers

Origin of poser

From pose + -er.

From German Poser.

Words formed from poser

Words that rhyme with poser

Questions about poser

What does poser mean?
Poser means a particularly difficult question or puzzle.
What is poser in Malayalam?
Poser in Malayalam is ദുശ്ചോദ്യക്കാരൻ, വിഷമിപ്പിക്കുന്നവൻ, കുഴക്കുന്നവൻ. See Poser meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is poser?
Poser can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce poser?
Poser is pronounced /ˈpəʊzə(ɹ)/ (UK).
What is the plural of poser?
The plural of poser is posers.

Words near poser in the dictionary

  1. poseks
  2. poselet
  3. poselets
  4. Posen
  5. poseq
  6. poser
  7. poserish
  8. poserolaterally
  9. posers
  10. poses
  11. poses plastiques

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: poser (page history and authors); Poser (page history and authors); poser (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); poser (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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