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    [Noun]  | "wise*acre" | \ ˈwīz-ˌā-kər \


    1: one who pretends to knowledge or cleverness; especially : smart aleck


    Origin: 1595 ;

     Middle Dutch wijssegger soothsayer, modification of Old High German wīzzago; akin to Old English wītega soothsayer, witan to know;

    [Noun]  | "wiseacre" 


    1: a person who likes to show off in a clever but annoying way;


      * e.g., " ... a loudmouthed wiseacre who thinks he is more amusing than he really is "



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     [ "wiseacre" ]

    1: a smart aleck or a wiseguy.

      * e.g.,  ... Richie has the reputation for being a wiseacre. 

     [ "Wiseacre" ]

    1: Old person speak for smartass.

      * e.g.,  ... That Emmet Wickersham is a real wiseacre, I tell you. I caught him stealing checkers off the board while I was looking at Lawrence Welk on the television set." "If he tries that just one more time, I'm calling the nurse." 

     [ "wiseacres" ]

    1: a group of Syracuse engineer majors that binge drink and take sexy photos of eachother in their spare time

      * e.g.,  ... why are those kids laying down in the hall way? 

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