Definitions

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

  • noun Plural form of wisehead.

Etymologies

Sorry, no etymologies found.

Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word wiseheads.

Examples

  • Political leaders are public figures, and these are public events - if anything, the saddest part about this story is that it took this long for the Liberal wiseheads squiring Dion around to recognize the same dude appearing at all of Dion's events.

    Archive 2007-03-01 ALW 2007

  • Political leaders are public figures, and these are public events - if anything, the saddest part about this story is that it took this long for the Liberal wiseheads squiring Dion around to recognize the same dude appearing at all of Dion's events.

    Groping For Scandal ALW 2007

  • Ah! they took a sage plan to make me forget him — the wiseheads!

    Villette 2003

  • Either that, said the wiseheads, or else Archangel.

    Jimmie Higgins Upton Sinclair 1923

  • “Had the command been given me in February,” he said, “many lives would have been saved, and we should have been in a very different situation; but the wiseheads at home know everything.”

    The Life of Nelson Mahan, A. T. 1897

  • "Had the command been given me in February," he said, "many lives would have been saved, and we should have been in a very different situation; but the wiseheads at home know everything."

    The Life of Nelson, Volume 2 (of 2) The Embodiment of the Sea Power of Great Britain 1877

  • So radical was this "theory" considered that it precipitated a lively discussion among the wiseheads, which was prolonged for fifty years, and only finally settled by Linnæus, who reaffirmed the facts declared by

    My Studio Neighbors William Hamilton Gibson 1873

  • You shall hear it, and then you can believe as much as you choose, as all the rest of the world takes the liberty of doing; for although the grave old Roman writers put it in their books for truth, it is very much doubted by our modern wiseheads, because it is so unreasonable, and so inelegant (as our dainty critic says).

    St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 5, May, 1878, No. 7. Scribner's Illustrated Various 1868

  • Ah! they took a sage plan to make me forget him -- the wiseheads!

    Villette Charlotte Bront�� 1835

  • Among his many absurdities was one of which no man had as yet discovered the object, although by long practice the wiseheads of the community had learned to unravel the meaning of most of his vagaries.

    The Illustrious Gaudissart Honor�� de Balzac 1824

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.