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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Poser \Pos"er\, noun One who, or that which, puzzles; a difficult or inexplicable question or fact. --Bacon.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
poser
noun
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}, {sticker}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
92 Moby Thesaurus words for "poser": Chinese puzzle, Gordian knot, Holy Willie, Joseph Surface, Mawworm, Pecksniff, Pharisee, Tartuffe, affecter, attitudinarian, attitudinizer, baffling problem, blagueur, bluff, bluffer, brain twister, canter, canting hypocrite, charlatan, crossword puzzle, crux, dilemma, dissembler, dissimulator, enigma, enigmatic question, fake, faker, floorer, formalist, fourflusher, fraud, humbug, hypocrite, impersonator, impostor, jigsaw puzzle, knot, knotty point, lip server, lip worshiper, malingerer, mind-boggler, mountebank, mystery, node, nodus, nonplus, nut to crack, oxymoron, paradox, perplexed question, perplexity, pharisee, phony, pietist, pious fraud, pons asinorum, poseur, posture maker, posturer, posturist, pretender, problem, puzzle, puzzlement, puzzler, quack, quacksalver, quackster, quandary, question, question mark, ranter, religionist, religious hypocrite, ringer, saltimbanco, sham, shammer, sixty-four dollar question, sniveler, snuffler, spiritual humbug, sticker, striker of poses, stumper, teaser, tough proposition, vexed question, whited sepulcher, why
From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]:
poser n. [from French 'poseur'] 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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