单词 | wisecracker |
释义 | > as lemmasˈwisecracker ˈwisecracker n. one given to making wisecracks. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > understanding > intelligence, cleverness > wit, wittiness > wit with words > sarcasm > [noun] > one who uses quipper1589 wit-cracker1600 wit-snapper1600 wisecracker1923 1923 N.Y. Times 9 Sept. vii. 2 Wise-cracker, a city fellow who makes wise remarks. 1924 P. Marks Plastic Age 113 Carl the flippant, the voluble, the ‘wise-cracker’, lost his tongue. 1939 J. Joyce Finnegans Wake 33 It has been blurtingly bruited by certain wisecrackers.. that he suffered from a vile disease. 1949 G. B. Shaw Sixteen Self Sketches xiv. 82 Without him I might have been a mere literary wise~cracker, like Carlyle and Ruskin. 1977 Rolling Stone 21 Apr. 58/1 Jim Rockford is a worldly wisecracker. < as lemmas |
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