EGAVE

wiseacre

About 0.02 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun One who feigns knowledge or cleverness; one who is wisecracking; an insolent upstart.
  2. noun A learned or wise man. .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller}
  3. verb To act like a wiseacre; to wisecrack.

Similar words

smart aleck wise guy wisenheimer weisenheimer smarty wiseass wiseling wise-ass smartass wisecracker

Often followed by

who farm of in and to has had or

Word family

wiseacres

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