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wiseacre
/ˈwaɪzeɪkə(ɹ)/
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What does wiseacre mean?
noun
- One who feigns knowledge or cleverness; one who is wisecracking; an insolent upstart.
verb
- To act like a wiseacre; to wisecrack.
More meanings (1)
noun
- (obsolete) A learned or wise man.
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/ˈwaɪzeɪkə(ɹ)/
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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.
The wiseacre who invented these modes of flying in the air seems, some would say, to have been more in want of very strict confinement on the earth than of the freedom of the skies.
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No base, unworthy suspicions of a cycler's inability to ride on a two-inch rail finds lodgement in the mind of this wiseacre; but his compassionate heart is moved with tender solicitude as to whether the soulless "company" will, or will not, permit it.