wiseling
nounEtymology From wise + -ling.
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One who pretends to be wise; a wiseacre.
- This may well put to the blush those wiselings that show themselves fools in so speaking. ― Donne.
- This is the book that makes fools of little wiselings.1920, Henry Osborn Taylor, Thought and Expression in the Sixteenth Century:
2 more examples
- What! a score o' wiselings, and not one to hit oot the means and the way?"2010, Bernard Edward Joseph Capes, At a Winter's Fire:
- A wiseling keeps his real sentiments on this point to himself – guards them as his own life. The best mask for moral heresy is one of pretended sanctity.2012, Anton LaVey, Ragnar Redbeard, Might is Right: