| 单词 | wiseacre |
| 释义 | wiseacre (once / 11520 pages) n Use the noun wiseacre when you need an old-fashioned way to talk about a smarty pants. Your grandfather might refer to your smart mouthed, know-it-all little brother as a wiseacre. Wiseacre and all of its synonyms carry an informal air about them, perhaps suggesting that we don't want to formalize the idea of a smart aleck. Wiseacre comes from Dutch wijssegger, which means "soothsayer." The wise bit is in fact related to wise. The acre part — well, as one dictionary puts it, "the assimilation to acre remains unexplained." WORD FAMILYwiseacre: wiseacres USAGE EXAMPLESMeantime, Memphis, Tenn., is encouraging favorite son Wiseacre Brewing to examine the vacant Mid-South Coliseum as a possible expansion site. Wall Street Journal(Dec 31, 2016) I used to go out to the Best Western in Tysons Corner — there was a club called Wiseacres. Washington Post(Sep 29, 2016) He was acting so different, all glum, and wiseacre answers. Jerry Spinelli, Maniac Magee(1990) n an upstart who makes conceited, sardonic, insolent comments Syn|Hyper smart aleck, weisenheimer, wise guy, wisenheimer upstart an arrogant or presumptuous person |
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