overknowing

adj

overknowing

adj

Etymology From over- + knowing.

1

Excessively knowing or cunning.

Odds me! how wise the child is! what a loss And pity 'tis that in old times the folk Were not so thoughtful and so over-knowing!1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume II, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 89:

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