Hypertext Webster Gateway: "poser"
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) 1.7 (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}, {sticker}]
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