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wise guy

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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A smart aleck.
  • noun A mobster.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun One given to making clever jokes regarded as rude or disrespectful; smart; a wisecracker.
  • noun A knowledgable or successful sports bettor.
  • noun slang A member of the Mafia; a mobster

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun an upstart who makes conceited, sardonic, insolent comments

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synonyms (28)

Words with the same meaning

  1. Gothamite
  2. boldface
  3. brazenface
  4. chutzpanik
  5. hussy
  6. know-all
  7. know-it-all
  8. malapert
  9. minx
  10. pup
  11. puppy
  12. saucebox
  13. smart aleck
  14. smart ass
  15. smart-ass
  16. smarty
  17. smarty-pants
  18. swaggerer
  19. upstart
  20. whippersnapper
  21. wise fool
  22. wise-ass
  23. wiseacre
  24. wisecracker
  25. wisehead
  26. wiseling
  27. wisenheimer
  28. witling

hypernyms (1)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. upstart

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