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wiseling

wiseling noun: one who pretends to be wise; a wiseacre.

Noun

wiseling (plural wiselings)

  1. One who pretends to be wise; a wiseacre.
    • This may well put to the blush those wiselings that show themselves fools in so speaking. ― Donne.
    • This is the book that makes fools of little wiselings.1920, Henry Osborn Taylor, Thought and Expression in the Sixteenth Century

Examples of wiseling in a sentence

  • What! a score o' wiselings, and not one to hit oot the means and the way?"2010, Bernard Edward Joseph Capes, At a Winter's Fire:
  • A wiseling keeps his real sentiments on this point to himself – guards them as his own life.2012, Anton LaVey, Ragnar Redbeard, Might is Right:

Forms of wiseling

pluralwiselings

Origin of wiseling

From wise + -ling.

Questions about wiseling

What does wiseling mean?
Wiseling means one who pretends to be wise; a wiseacre.
How do you use wiseling in a sentence?
What! a score o' wiselings, and not one to hit oot the means and the way?"
What part of speech is wiseling?
Wiseling is a noun.
What is the plural of wiseling?
The plural of wiseling is wiselings.

Words near wiseling in the dictionary

  1. Wiseley
  2. Wiseleys
  3. wiselier
  4. wiseliest
  5. wiselike
  6. wiseling
  7. wiselings
  8. wisely
  9. Wiselys
  10. wiseman
  11. Wiseman's Bridge

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