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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)

  1. 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.
  2. (obsolete) A learned or wise man. [from before 1600]

Derived terms

  • wiseacring

Translations

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wiseling

English

Etymology

From wise +? -ling.

Noun

wiseling (plural wiselings)

  1. One who pretends to be wise; a wiseacre.
    This may well put to the blush those wiselings that show themselves fools in so speaking. ? Donne.
    • 1920, Henry Osborn Taylor, Thought and Expression in the Sixteenth Century:
      This is the book that makes fools of little wiselings.
    • 2010, Bernard Edward Joseph Capes, At a Winter's Fire:
      What! a score o' wiselings, and not one to hit oot the means and the way?"
    • 2012, Anton LaVey, Ragnar Redbeard, Might is Right:
      A wiseling keeps his real sentiments on this point to himself – guards them as his own life. The best mask for moral heresy is one of pretended sanctity.

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