Word of the Day for Monday 20th October 2014
Wisenheimer \WAHY-zuhn-hahy-mer\
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Noun
1. A wiseacre or smart aleck. |
Quotes
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She scoffed at Cindi Su's meekness and diffidence, but she also
thought if you were a girl in these United States, being agreeable and
dithering probably got you further than being a hulking wisenheimer who
skipped grades in school and aspired to be a race car driver.
-- Karen Karbo, The Stuff of Life, 2003 |
Origin
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Wisenheimer is an Americanism that arose in the 1910’s.
It is a combination of wise with heimer as an
extracted form from surnames with this ending.
Thanks to: www.dictionary.com
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