posturistn.
/ˈpɒstʃ(ə)rɪst/, U.S. /ˈpɑstʃərəst/ Now rare.
= posturer n.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > affected behaviour or affectation > [noun] > affected person
affecter1607
snuffler1642
languisher1713
attitudinarian1756
attitudinizer1824
pseudo1829
posturer1833
posturist1857
poseur1869
affectationist1873
Turveydrop1877
posturant1882
poser1888
four-flusher1904
gobdaw1947
nerd1951
pseud1954
jive-ass1964
1857 A. J. H. Duganne Tenant-house xxix. 394 The little one appeared in tableaux with the posturist, at a model-artist exhibition.
1877 P. J. Bailey Festus (ed. 10) 451 Law, whose thunderous negatives awe the world, And pale the lips of weekly posturists.
1886 Daily News 19 Oct. 6/6 To point out to the mass that the performer they had received as altogether admirable appears from another point of view a mere mouther—an absurd posturist.
1905 Post-Standard (Syracuse, N.Y.) 11 Sept. 4/6 The bill will be headed by..the Pantzer trio of contortionists and posturists.
1931 Times Lit. Suppl. 29 Jan. 74/2 An orator should be a perfect posturist.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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n.1857- get it in the neck
- get it into one's head
- get it krump
- get it off one's chest
- get it on
- get it on cold
- get it on him cold
- get it over with
- get it together
- get it up
- get it up one's nose
- get it?
- get itchy feet
- get jack of
- get jerry
- get jerry on
- get jerry on to
- get jerry to
- get jiggy
- get knotted
- get knowledge etc of
- get knowledge intelligence of
- get knowledge of
- get knowledge wit of
- get krump