wiseacre英语原文释义、词形变化、词源和词汇关系

英文释义

名词 n.

One who feigns knowledge or cleverness; one who is wisecracking; an insolent upstart.

— That other class of wiseacres who twist prophecy in such a manner as to make it promise the destruction and desolation of the same city, use judgement just as bad, since the city is in a very flourishing condition now, unhappily for them.
A learned or wise man. obsolete

— A fool's paradise is better than a wiseacre's purgatory.

动词 v.

To act like a wiseacre; to wisecrack.

词形变化

wiseacres plural wiseacres present,singular,third-person wiseacring participle,present wiseacred participle,past wiseacred past

词源

词源 1

From Middle Dutch wijssegger (“soothsayer”), from Old High German wīzzago, wīzago (“wise man, prophet, soothsayer”), from Proto-West Germanic *wītagō (“wise one; prophet”). Cognate with Old English wītga (“wise man, prophet”). See also German Weissager (“soothsayer, seer”).

词源 2

From Middle Dutch wijssegger (“soothsayer”), from Old High German wīzzago, wīzago (“wise man, prophet, soothsayer”), from Proto-West Germanic *wītagō (“wise one; prophet”). Cognate with Old English wītga (“wise man, prophet”). See also German Weissager (“soothsayer, seer”).