poseur
See also: Poseur
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French poseur.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /poʊˈzʊəɹ/
Audio (UK) (file)
- Rhymes: -ʊəɹ
Noun
poseur (plural poseurs)
- One who affects some behaviour, style, attitude or other condition, often to impress or influence others.
- Synonyms: poser, attitudinizer
- 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 (lyrics and music), “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
- 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.
Translations
one who affects some behaviour, style, attitude or other condition, often to impress or influence others
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See also
- pretentious
Anagrams
- Roupes, rose up, souper, supero-, uprose
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /po.zœʁ/
Audio (file)
Noun
poseur m (plural poseurs, feminine poseuse)
- poseur
- Synonyms: crâneur, frimeur
Related terms
- poser
Descendants
- → English: poseur
- → German: Poseur
Adjective
poseur (feminine poseuse, masculine plural poseurs, feminine plural poseuses)
- pompous, affected
Further reading
- “poseur”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
- proues, souper
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French poseur.
Noun
poseur m (plural poseuri)
- poseur
Declension
Declension of poseur
singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) poseur | poseurul | (niște) poseuri | poseurii |
genitive/dative | (unui) poseur | poseurului | (unor) poseuri | poseurilor |
vocative | poseurule | poseurilor |
References
- poseur in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN