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wiseacre
[ wahyz-ey-ker ]
wiseacre
/ 藞飞补瑟锄藢别瑟办蓹 /
noun
- a person who wishes to seem wise
- a wise person: often used facetiously or contemptuously
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of wiseacre1
C16: from Middle Dutch wijsseggher soothsayer; related to Old High German 飞墨蝉saga, German Weissager. See wise 1, say
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鈥淗ey,鈥 said one wiseacre, stepping into a gaggle of car people on the patio at the Mission Ranch.
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Watching it now reveals an altogether different Fallon, more sarcastic wiseacre than chipper enthusiast.
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While 鈥渕y statue was the butt of wiseacres and witlings, I never in word, or thought, swerved from my principle,鈥 he wrote.
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Insouciance goes a fairly long way in 鈥淐onfess, Fletch,鈥 which revives the wiseacre investigator once played by Chevy Chase and featured in a series of novels by Gregory Mcdonald.
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You just know some wiseacre will be screaming 鈥淕et out of the hole!鈥 the next time he putts.
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