POSER

poser, stumper, toughie, sticker

(noun) a particularly difficult or baffling question or problem

model, poser

(noun) 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”

poseur, poser

(noun) a person who habitually pretends to be something he is not

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

poser (plural posers)

(British) A particularly difficult question or puzzle.

Someone who asks a question or sets a problem.

Someone who, or something which, poses; a person who sets their body in a fixed position, such as for photography or painting.

(pejorative, slang) A poseur; someone who affects some behaviour, style, attitude or other condition, often to impress or influence others.

Anagrams

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

Source: Wiktionary


Pos"er, n.

Definition: One who, or that which, puzzles; a difficult or inexplicable question or fact. Bacon.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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ANALYSIS

(noun) the use of closed-class words instead of inflections: e.g., ‘the father of the bride’ instead of ‘the bride’s father’


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