poser
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
poser
n 1: a person who habitually pretends to be something he is not
[syn: {poseur}, {poser}]
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}, {poser}]
3: a particularly difficult or baffling question or problem
[syn: {poser}, {stumper}, {toughie}, {sticker}]
from
Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003)
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".
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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
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