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weisenheimer
English
Noun
weisenheimer (plural weisenheimers)
- Alternative spelling of wisenheimer
- 1957, J. D. Salinger, "Zooey", in, 1961, Franny and Zooey:
- We knew there's no keeping a born scholar ignorant, and at heart, I think, we didn't really want to, but we were nervous, even frightened, at the statistics on child pedants and academic weisenheimers who grow up into faculty-recreation-room savants.
- 1957, J. D. Salinger, "Zooey", in, 1961, Franny and Zooey:
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wiseacre
English
Etymology
From Middle Dutch wijssegger (“soothsayer”), from Old High German w?zzago, w?zago (“wise man, prophet, soothsayer”), from Proto-West Germanic *w?tag? (“wise one; prophet”). Cognate with Old English w?tega (“wise man, prophet”). See also German Weissager (“soothsayer, seer”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?wa?ze?k?(?)/
Noun
wiseacre (plural wiseacres)
- One who feigns knowledge or cleverness; one who is wisecracking; an insolent upstart.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:know-it-all
- 1869, Mark Twain, the Innocents Abroad, Random House (2003), pages 298-299
- That other class of wiseacres who twist prophecy in such a manner as to make it promise the destruction and desolation of the same city, use judgement just as bad, since the city is in a very flourishing condition now, unhappily for them.
- (obsolete) A learned or wise man. [from before 1600]
Derived terms
- wiseacring
Translations
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