poseur

Borrowed from French poseur.

• IPA^(key): /poʊˈzʊəɹ/

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• Rhymes: -ʊəɹ

poseur (plural poseurs)

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

   Synonyms: poser, attitudinizer

   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.

   • 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, “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

• pretentious
• wannabe

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

• IPA^(key): /po.zœʁ/

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poseur m (plural poseurs, feminine poseuse)

1. poseur

   Synonyms: crâneur, frimeur

• poser

• → English: poseur
• → German: Poseur

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

1. pompous, affected

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

• proues, souper

Borrowed from French poseur.

poseur m (plural poseuri)

1. poseur

• poseur in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN