| 单词 | wise guy |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswise guy wise guy n. colloquial, originally U.S. an experienced or knowledgeable man; usually ironic or derog., a know-all, a wiseacre; someone who makes sarcastic or annoying remarks; also (with reversal of meaning), someone easily duped; also attributive.extracted from wiseadj.n.3adv.wise guy wise guy n. U.S. slang (frequently in form wiseguy) a gangster; a person involved in organized crime. Π 1956 Lima (Ohio) News 29 June 2/5 ‘Wise guy’ slayer draws prison term... Described by the state's attorney as a ‘little gangster and a typical wise guy’. 1962 L. Frankenberg in S. V. Baum E. E. Cummings & Critics viii. 144 He talks frequently out of the corner of his mouth, in his own brand of the vernacular based, in attitude and idiom, on the American wiseguy. 1985 N. Pileggi Wiseguy 19 At the age of twelve my ambition was to be a gangster. To be a wiseguy... To be a wiseguy was to own the world. 2005 N.Y. Mag. 17 Jan. 31/3 Mikey Scars's grandfather had been a ‘blackhand’shtarker (enforcer) a hundred years ago in New York, and his father had been a wiseguy, too. < as lemmas |
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