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Oct. 8, 2014

wisenheimer \WAHY-zuhn-hahy-mer\ noun 1. a wiseacre or smart aleck. Quotes 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 Wisenheimer is an Americanism that arose in the 1910s. It is a combination of wise with heimer as an extracted form from surnames with this ending.

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