poser

From pose +‎ -er.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈpəʊzə(ɹ)/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈpoʊzɚ/

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• Rhymes: -əʊzə(ɹ)

poser (plural posers)

2. (British) A particularly difficult question or puzzle.
   • 1927, Agatha Christie, The Big Four:

     “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.

4. Someone who asks a question or sets a problem.

   Even as a child, she was a habitual poser of difficult questions.

6. Someone who, or something which, poses; a person who sets their body in a fixed position, such as for photography or painting.
8. (derogatory, slang) A poseur; someone who affects some behaviour, style, attitude or other condition, often to impress or influence others.
   • 2008 July 9, Dan Shive, El Goonish Shive (webcomic), Comic for Wednesday, Jul 9, 2008:

     "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!"

   • 2025, Fraxiom, “i hope you know”, performed by Food House:

     Started hormones and these bitches called me a trans poser / They can kill themselves, I'm turning up like a transposer

• faker
• impostor
• pretentious

• Prose, ropes, S'pore, reops, Soper, ERPOs, spore, Poers, Spero, Perso-, soper, Peros, preso, prose, OPers., pores, Ropes, repos, opers, pro se

Inherited from Old French poser, from Vulgar Latin pausāre < Latin pausāre, influenced in meaning by pōnō (especially its past participle positus). Compare Italian posare.

• IPA^(key): /po.ze/

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poser

1. (transitive) to stop carrying, to put down (something or somebody)
2. (transitive) to ask or pose (a question)

   J'ai quelques questions à lui poser.

   I have a few questions to ask him.

   Puis-je vous poser une question ?

   Can I ask you a question?

3. (transitive) to land (a plane)
4. (transitive) to lay, place
5. (transitive) to install, fit
6. (reflexive) to relax, settle

   Synonyms: reposer, rester

• → Portuguese: posar

• demander

• “poser”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

• perso, pores, prose, repos

poser m

1. indefinite plural of pose

poser

1. imperative of posere

From Vulgar Latin pausō, pausāre, influenced by Latin pōnō.

poser

1. to put; to place
   • ses meins desus lui posa
2. to suggest; to propose
3. to rest; to recover; to recuperate

This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. The forms that would normally end in *-ss, *-st are modified to s, st. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

• English: pose
• French: poser

• Frédéric Godefroy (1880–1902), “poser”, in Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle […], Paris: F[riedrich] Vieweg; Émile Bouillon, →OCLC.
• poser on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub

• pôser (adapted borrowing)

Unadapted borrowing from English poser.

poser m (plural posers)

1. (derogatory, Internet slang) poser (someone who affects a style or attitude)

   Coordinate term: fã

• “poser”, in Dicio – Dicionário Online de Português (in Portuguese), São Paulo: 7Graus, 2009–2026
• “poser”, in Dicionário inFormal (in Portuguese), 2006–2026