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wiseacring

wiseacring is the present participle and gerund of wiseacre.

Meaning of wiseacre

Verb

wiseacre (third-person singular simple present wiseacres, present participle wiseacring, simple past and past participle wiseacred)

  1. (intransitive) To act like a wiseacre; to wisecrack.

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Questions about wiseacring

What is wiseacring the present participle and gerund of?
Wiseacring is the present participle and gerund of wiseacre.

Words near wiseacring in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: wiseacring (page history and authors); wiseacre (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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