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wiseacre

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wise·a·cre  (wzkr)
n. Slang
A person regarded as being disagreeably egotistical and self-assured.
[Alteration by folk etymology from Middle Dutch wijsseggher, soothsayer, translation of Middle High German wssage, from Old High German wssago, seer, alteration (influenced by forasago, sayer beforehand, prophet) of wzago, from wzag, knowledgeable; see weid- in Indo-European roots.]
wiseacre
Noun
a person who wishes to seem wise [Middle Dutch wijsseggher soothsayer]
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Noun1.wiseacre - an upstart who makes conceited, sardonic, insolent comments
smart aleck, weisenheimer, wise guy, wisenheimer
upstart - an arrogant or presumptuous person
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Such sayings themselves grow harder and adhere more firmly with age, and it would take many blows with a trowel to clean an old wiseacre of them.
Walden & on the Duty of Civil Disobedience by Thoreau, Henry David View in context
And how do these wiseacres know that man wants a normal, a virtuous choice?
Notes from the Underground by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor View in context
It is so intensely and deliberately didactic, and its subject is esteemed so dry, that I delight in throwing it at the heads of the wiseacres who repeat the parrot cry that art should never be didactic.
Pygmalion by Shaw, George Bernard View in context
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