"wise guy" meaning in English

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Noun

Audio: En-au-wise guy.ogg [Australia] Forms: wise guys [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} wise guy (plural wise guys)
  1. (informal) One who is insolent or flippant; one who makes jokes or perpetrates pranks. Tags: informal Categories (topical): People Synonyms (one who is insolent or flippant): know-all, know-it-all, smart aleck, smarty, wisecracker, wisenheimer Translations (one who is insolent or flippant): neropatti (Finnish), viisastelija (Finnish), petit rigolo (French), Naseweis [masculine] (German), Rotznase [feminine] (German), Schlaumeier [masculine] (German), Neunmalkluger [masculine] (German), Besserwisser [masculine] (German), Klugscheißer [masculine] (German), חכמולוג (Hebrew), insolente [masculine] (Italian), smargiasso [masculine] (Italian), sapientone [masculine] (Italian), fanfarone [masculine] (Italian), spaccone [masculine] (Italian), همه چیزدان (Persian), عقلِ کُل (Persian), vivo (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-wise_guy-en-noun-yKVIFhR8 Disambiguation of People: 27 8 5 32 27 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 27 30 37 4 2 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 29 30 37 2 1 Disambiguation of 'one who is insolent or flippant': 92 2 1 3 2 Disambiguation of 'one who is insolent or flippant': 92 2 1 3 2
  2. (slang) A knowledgeable or successful sports bettor. Tags: slang
    Sense id: en-wise_guy-en-noun-fxDs6seR Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 27 30 37 4 2 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 29 30 37 2 1
  3. (US, slang) A member of the Mafia; a mobster. Tags: US, slang
    Sense id: en-wise_guy-en-noun-RY46WQY- Categories (other): American English, English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms of address, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 27 30 37 4 2 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 29 30 37 2 1 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 27 27 43 3 1 Disambiguation of English terms of address: 20 21 41 4 15 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 26 23 46 3 1
  4. (slang) A hipster. Tags: slang Categories (topical): People
    Sense id: en-wise_guy-en-noun-Afmy8MNp Disambiguation of People: 27 8 5 32 27
  5. (slang, offensive, ethnic slur) An Italian-American man. Tags: ethnic, offensive, slang, slur Categories (topical): People
    Sense id: en-wise_guy-en-noun-LYGKdFqZ Disambiguation of People: 27 8 5 32 27 Categories (other): English ethnic slurs
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Categories (other): English_sarcastic_terms Disambiguation of English_sarcastic_terms: 0 0 0 0 0

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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.