Associations to the word «Wiseacre»
Wiktionary
WISEACRE, noun. One who feigns knowledge or cleverness; one who is wisecracking; an insolent upstart.
WISEACRE, noun. (obsolete) A learned or wise man.
Dictionary definition
WISEACRE, noun. An upstart who makes conceited, sardonic, insolent comments.
Wise words
In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike
fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the
new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.