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発音

• IPA: /pəʊˈzʊə(ɹ)/, /pəʊˈzɜː(ɹ)/
• 韻: -ʊə(ɹ), -ɜː(ɹ)

名詞

poseur (plural poseurs)

1. One who affects some behaviour, style, attitude or other condition, often to impress or influence others.

   Synonyms: poser, attitudinizer

   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.

   • 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, “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

派生語

参考

• pretentious
• wannabe

アナグラム

• Roupes, rose up, souper, supero-, uprose