wiseacre

[wise·a·cre]

Use the noun wiseacre when you need an old fashioned way to talk about a smarty pants. Your grandfather might refer to your smart mouthed, know it all little brother as a wiseacre.

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A learned or wise man.

Noun
an upstart who makes conceited, sardonic, insolent comments


v.
A learned or wise man.

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


Wiseacre

Wise"a*cre , n. [OD. wijssegger or G. weissager a foreteller, prophet, from weissagen to foretell, to prophesy, OHG. w'c6ssagn, corrupted (as if compounded of the words for wise and say) fr. w'c6zzagn, fr. w'c6zzag a prophet, akin to AS. w'c6tiga, w'c6tga, from the root of E. wit. See Wit, v.] 1. A learned or wise man. [Obs.]
Pythagoras learned much . . . becoming a mighty wiseacre.
2. One who makes undue pretensions to wisdom; a would-be-wise person; hence, in contempt, a simpleton; a dunce.

A learned or wise man.

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