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wiseacre
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As a noun, wiseacre means one who feigns knowledge or cleverness. As a verb, it means act like a wiseacre.
Meanings of wiseacre
4 meaningsnoun
One who feigns knowledge or cleverness; one who is wisecracking; an insolent upstart.
An upstart who makes conceited, sardonic, insolent commentsperson
Similar: smart aleck, wisenheimer, weisenheimer
Older and rare meanings (1)
obsoleteA learned or wise man.
verb
To act like a wiseacre; to wisecrack.
Meanings from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).
Synonyms by meaning
noun: an upstart who makes conceited, sardonic, insolent comments
smart aleckwisenheimerweisenheimer
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