poseur

See also: Poseur

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French poseur.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /poʊˈzʊəɹ/

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Noun

poseur (plural poseurs)

1. One who affects some behaviour, style, attitude or other condition, often to impress or influence others.

   Synonyms: poser, attitudinizer

   • 1884, Vernon Lee (pseudonym; Violet Paget), The Countess of Albany, published 1910, page 67:

     But he was also, what seems almost incompatible with this ferocious truthfulness, excessively self-conscious and morally attitudinising, a thin-skinned poseur.

   • 1978, Poly Styrene (lyrics and music), “I Am a Poseur”, in Germ Free Adolescents, performed by X-Ray Spex:

     I am a poseur and I don't care / I like to make people stare

   He pretends he's an artist, but he's just a poseur.

   She only dresses like that because she thinks she is getting the boys' attention; she's such a poseur.

Translations

one who affects some behaviour, style, attitude or other condition, often to impress or influence others

• Bulgarian: позьор (bg) m (pozjor)
• Dutch: aansteller (nl) m
• French: poseur (fr) m, poseuse (fr) f, crâneur (fr) m, crâneuse (fr) f
• German: Angeber (de) m, Angeberin (de) f, Poser m, Poserin f, Poseur (de) m, Poseurin (de) f
• Norwegian: posør m
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• Russian: позёр (ru) m (pozjór), позёрка (ru) f (pozjórka)
• Spanish: postureador m, postureadora f, posturero m, impostor (es) m
• Swedish: posör (sv) c
• Turkish: pozör

See also

• pretentious

Anagrams

• Roupes, rose up, souper, supero-, uprose

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /po.zœʁ/

• Audio:

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Noun

poseur m (plural poseurs, feminine poseuse)

1. poseur

   Synonyms: crâneur, frimeur

Related terms

• poser

Descendants

• → English: poseur
• → German: Poseur

Adjective

poseur (feminine poseuse, masculine plural poseurs, feminine plural poseuses)

1. pompous, affected

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• proues, souper