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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Poser \Pos"er\, n.
One who or that which puzzles; a difficult or inexplicable
question or fact --Bacon.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
poser
n 1: a person who habitually pretends to be something he is not
[syn: {poseur}]
2: 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" [syn: {model}]
3: a particularly difficult or baffling question or problem
[syn: {stumper}, {toughie}]
From Jargon File (4.2.3, 23 NOV 2000) [jargon]:
poser n. A {wannabee}; not hacker slang, but used among
crackers, phreaks and {warez d00dz}. Not as negative as {lamer}
or {leech}. Probably derives from a similar usage among punk-rockers
and metalheads putting down those who "talk the talk but don't walk
the walk".
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