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noun

Wiseacre n.

A learned or wise man. (Obs.) "Pythagoras learned much... becoming a mighty wiseacre."

One who makes undue pretensions to wisdom; a would-be-wise person; hence, in contempt, a simpleton; a dunce.

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Etymology of 'Wiseacre'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Wiseacre" Quotes from Famous Books

... don't think me a moment ignoring: 'How long has she honoured the surname of Loring?' Wiseacre, first tell, how a man without honour Could ever confer that fair jewel ...

— Janice Meredith • Paul Leicester Ford

... "Some wiseacre says that listeners never hear good of themselves, and upon my word he was right enough this time, so far as I made out. The French language is beyond me, so far as speaking goes, for I never can lay hold of the word I want; but I can make out most ...

— Springhaven - A Tale of the Great War • R. D. Blackmore

... out, with ruffled dignity, carefully dressed. His immaculate clothes and his solemn face were the two halves of his stock in trade. Under the clothes lay buried Ketchup the blacksmith; under the wiseacre face was Ketchup the ignoramus. Ignoramus he was, but not a fool. As he rode along back with Jonas, he plied the latter with questions. If he could get the facts of the case out of Jonas, he would pretend to have inferred them from the ...

— The End Of The World - A Love Story • Edward Eggleston

... his one grievance was that the regiment was not getting to the front. Heat and frost, hurricane and dust-storm—nothing came amiss. And he described himself as stronger than ever, and poured scorn on the medical wiseacre who had ...

— Ghetto Comedies • Israel Zangwill

... Khoja began to reproach him. "You never thought it would come to this, my fine bird, did you?" said he. "And yet what a wiseacre you are! You know when it's day better than the sun himself, and can crow loud enough for all the world ...

— Miscellanea • Juliana Horatia Ewing

Words linked to "Wiseacre" : wise guy, weisenheimer, smart aleck, upstart