[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

poser \pos"er\, n.
   one who, or that which, puzzles; a difficult or inexplicable
   question or fact. --bacon.
   1913 webster poseur

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

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
see also:
poseur model stumper toughie sticker 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

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

[4] : Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001)

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".


see also:
wannabee warez d00dz lamer leech 

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