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n. Slang A person regarded as being disagreeably egotistical and self-assured.

n. One who feigns knowledge or cleverness; an insolent upstart.

n. A learned or wise man.

n. A learned or wise man.

n. One who makes undue pretensions to wisdom; a would-be-wise person; hence, in contempt, a simpleton; a dunce.

n. A sayer of wise things; a learned or wise man.

n. One who makes pretensions to great wisdom; hence, in contempt or irony, a would-be wise person; a serious simpleton or dunce.

n. an upstart who makes conceited, sardonic, insolent comments

"The book follows the usual jocular style of the "For Dummies" series (does the publisher have a special "wiseacre" editor?) including the cartoons and the usual "Part of Tens"."

upstart   

scholar   

wiseacring   

dunce    wisenheimer    smarty pants    smart aleck    or    smartie    smart ass    weisenheimer    smarty    wise-guy   

smatterer    dunce    frump    half-wit    tattler    aukward    ignoramus    empiric    dolt    lubber