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wising off

wising off is the present participle and gerund of wise off.

Meaning of wise off

Verb

wise off (third-person singular simple present wises off, present participle wising off, simple past and past participle wised off)

  1. (informal, intransitive) To make wisecracks; to behave like a smart aleck.

Questions about wising off

What is wising off the present participle and gerund of?
Wising off is the present participle and gerund of wise off.

Words near wising off in the dictionary

  1. wishy-washy
  2. Wisigoth
  3. Wisigothic
  4. Wisigoths
  5. wising
  6. wising off
  7. wising up
  8. Wisinski
  9. Wisinskis
  10. Wiske
  11. wisker

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Adapted from Wiktionary: wising off (page history and authors); wise off (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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