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Overwise

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Excessively wise; too clever for one's own good.

    "“Perkins? Bless you, Perkins wouldn’t go a-nigh the place. No!” observed the young man, with considerable feeling; “he ain’t overwise, ain’t Perkins, but he ain’t such a fool as that.”"

Etymology

From Middle English overe-wyse, over wise, equivalent to over- + wise.

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