Poser

Noun

 * 1)  A particularly difficult question or puzzle.
 * 2) Someone who, or something which, poses; a person who sets their body in a fixed position, such as for photography or painting.
 * 3)  = poseur; someone who affects some behaviour, style, attitude or other condition, often to impress or influence others

Thesaurus
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

Related terms

 * faker
 * impostor

Anagrams

 * pores
 * preso
 * prose, pro se
 * ropes
 * spore

Verb
poser


 * 1)  To stop carrying, to put down (something or somebody)
 * 2)  To ask (a question)
 * 3)  To land (a plane)
 * 4)  To lay, place
 * 5)  To install, fit

Etymology
pausare:, influenced by ponere:

Related terms

 * apposer
 * déposer
 * imposer
 * juxtaposer
 * superposer

Anagrams

 * perso, pores, prose, repos