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wiseacres

wiseacres is the plural of wiseacre.

wiseacres is the third-person singular simple present indicative of wiseacre.

Meaning of wiseacre

Noun

wiseacre (plural wiseacres)

  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.1869, Mark Twain, the Innocents Abroad, Random House, published 2003, pages 298–299
  2. (obsolete) A learned or wise man.
    • A fool's paradise is better than a wiseacre's purgatory.1776, George Colman, The Deuce is in him. A farce of two acts, page 24

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Questions about wiseacres

What is wiseacres the plural of?
Wiseacres is the plural of wiseacre.

Words near wiseacres in the dictionary

  1. wiseacredom
  2. wiseacreish
  3. wiseacreishness
  4. wiseacreism
  5. wiseacreisms
  6. wiseacres
  7. wiseacring
  8. wiseapple
  9. wiseapples
  10. wiseass
  11. wiseassery

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