POSER


Meaning of POSER in English

pos ‧ er /ˈpəʊzə $ ˈpoʊzər/ BrE AmE noun [countable] informal

[ Date: 1800-1900 ; Language: French ; Origin: poser ; ⇨ ↑ pose 1 ]

1 . British English ( also po‧seur /pəʊˈzɜː $ poʊˈzɜːr/) someone who pretends to have a quality or social position they do not really have, usually in order to make people notice or admire them:

You meet a lot of posers in this job.

2 . a difficult question:

That’s a real poser.

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English.      Longman - Словарь современного английского языка.