poser

plural posers

1. UKA particularly difficult question or puzzle.

   “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

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   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

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. derogatoryslangchiefly music fandomA poseur (one who affects some behaviour, style, attitude or other condition, often to impress or influence others); a fake fan.

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

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

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   "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

plural Posers

1. A surname from German