poser

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poser (plural posers)

  1. (UK) A particularly difficult question or puzzle.
  2. Someone who, or something which, poses; a person who sets their body in a fixed position, such as for photography or painting.
  3. (pejorative, slang) = poseur; someone who affects some behaviour, style, attitude or other condition, often to impress or influence others

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Vulgar Latin pausare, influenced by Latin ponere

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poser

  1. (transitive) To stop carrying, to put down (something or somebody)
  2. (transitive) To ask (a question)
  3. (transitive) To land (a plane)
  4. (transitive) To lay, place
  5. (transitive) To install, fit

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