| 单词 | wisenheimer |
| 释义 | wisenheimer U.S. slang.|ˈwaɪzənhaɪmə(r)|
Also weisen-, wise-.
[f. wise a. + -enheimer, as in German names such as Oppenheimer.]
A wiseacre, a ‘clever dick’. Also attrib. or as adj.
1904R. L. McCardell Show Girl & her Friends 51 He wants to know some good way to reduce his weight... You don't know any such a way? No? Why, I thought you was a wiseheimer. 1919Mencken Amer. Lang. v. 151 Several years ago -heimer had a great vogue in slang, and was rapidly done to death. But wiseheimer remains in colloquial use as a facetious synonym for smart-aleck, and after awhile it may gradually acquire dignity. 1919National Police Gaz. (U.S.) 4 Jan. 3/1 Cawkins..like a true Wisenheimer, considered the gentle, goosey kind of a beautiful girl the most appetizing. 1922S. Lewis Babbitt xxiv. 287 The wisenheimers grab a look at a fellow's nails when they want to tell if he's a tinhorn or a real gent! 1937Amer. Speech XII. 9/2 Some wiseheimer American newspaper man has picked this up and tagged it onto President Hoover. 1957J. D. Salinger Franny & Zooey (1964) 65 We were nervous..at the statistics on child pedants and academic weisenheimers who grow up into faculty-recreation-room savants. 1959Washington Post 26 Dec. a19/2 Then some wisenheimer from the agency decided we needed a trailer. 1975Times Lit. Suppl. 21 Feb. 185/1 The wisenheimer who gets his ornate come-uppance. 1977M. Babson Murder, Murder, Little Star vii. 50, I shoulda listened to her. But..I was too wisenheimer. |
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