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Wiseacre

//ˈwaɪzeɪkə(ɹ)// noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    One who feigns knowledge or cleverness; one who is wisecracking; an insolent upstart.

    "That other class of wiseacres who twist prophecy in such a manner as to make it promise the destruction and desolation of the same city, use judgement just as bad, since the city is in a very flourishing condition now, unhappily for them."

  2. 2
    an upstart who makes conceited, sardonic, insolent comments wordnet
  3. 3
    A learned or wise man. obsolete

    "A fool's paradise is better than a wiseacre's purgatory."

Verb
  1. 1
    To act like a wiseacre; to wisecrack.

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch wijssegger (“soothsayer”), from Old High German wīzzago, wīzago (“wise man, prophet, soothsayer”), from Proto-West Germanic *wītagō (“wise one; prophet”). Cognate with Old English wītga (“wise man, prophet”). See also German Weissager (“soothsayer, seer”).

Etymology 2

From Middle Dutch wijssegger (“soothsayer”), from Old High German wīzzago, wīzago (“wise man, prophet, soothsayer”), from Proto-West Germanic *wītagō (“wise one; prophet”). Cognate with Old English wītga (“wise man, prophet”). See also German Weissager (“soothsayer, seer”).

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