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poseur
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French poseur.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /po??z???/
Noun
poseur (plural poseurs)
- One who affects some behaviour, style, attitude or other condition, often to impress or influence others.
- Synonyms: poser, attitudinizer
Translations
See also
- pretentious
Anagrams
- Roupes, rose up, souper, supero-, uprose
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /po.zœ?/
Noun
poseur m (plural poseurs, feminine poseuse)
- poseur
- Synonyms: crâneur, frimeur
Related terms
- poser
Descendants
- ? English: poseur
- ? German: Poseur
Adjective
poseur (feminine singular poseuse, masculine plural poseurs, feminine plural poseuses)
- pompous, affected
Further reading
- “poseur” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams
- proues, souper
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charlatan
English
Etymology
From Middle French charlatan, from Old Italian ciarlatano (“quack”), a blend of ciarlatore (“chatterer”) + cerretano (“hawker, quack”, literally “native of Cerreto”) (Cerreto di Spoleto being a village in Umbria, known for its quacks).
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /????l?t?n/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /????l?t?n/
- Hyphenation: char?la?tan
Noun
charlatan (plural charlatans)
- (obsolete) A mountebank, someone who addresses crowds in the street; (especially), an itinerant seller of medicines or drugs.
- 1751, Tobias Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, vol I, ch. 38:
- The poor foreigner, more dead than alive, answered that he was an Italian charlatan, who had practised with some reputation in Padua […] .
- 1751, Tobias Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, vol I, ch. 38:
- A malicious trickster; a fake person, especially one who deceives for personal profit.
- Synonyms: trickster, swindler; see also Thesaurus:deceiver
- 2018 (June), Ian Murray in The Independent
- That this disgraceful charlatan holds one of the great offices of state in this country should be a source of constant shame and embarrassment to the Prime Minister.
Related terms
- charlatanism
- charlatanry
Translations
French
Etymology
From Italian ciarlatano. Pejorative meaning first recorded 1668.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?a?.la.t??/
Noun
charlatan m (plural charlatans, feminine charlatane)
- (dated) a streetseller of medicines
- a charlatan (trickster)
- a quack
Further reading
- “charlatan” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Middle French
Noun
charlatan m (plural charlatans)
- a street-seller of medicines
Descendants
- ? English: charlatan
- French: charlatan
Swedish
Etymology
From French charlatan. Cognate of English charlatan, German Scharlatan.
Noun
charlatan c
- fraudster, deceiver
Declension
Derived terms
- charlataneri
References
- charlatan in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
- charlatan in Svensk ordbok (SO)
- charlatan in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
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