wiseacre

Meaning of wiseacre

noun
  1. a person with an affectation of wisdom or knowledge, regarded with scorn or irritation by others; a know-all.
    the wiseacres forecast a collapse of the building

late 16th century: from Middle Dutch wijsseggher ‘soothsayer’, probably from the Germanic base of wit2. The assimilation to acre remains unexplained.

Information about wiseacre

  • It is a name.
  • The plural form of wiseacre is: wiseacres.
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Hyphenation of wiseacre

wiseacre

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 8 chars.
  • wiseacre is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

wiseacre synonyms

Meaning wise guy:

wisenheimer, weisenheimer

Words that rhyme with wiseacre

acre, Goodacre, Woodacre, broadacre, starveacre, whiteacre, longacre, fiacre, blackacre, milacre, polacre, simulacre, Linacre, conacre, cornacre, nacre, consacre, massacre, sacre, stavesacre, lavacre

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