The Merriam-Webster word of the day for April 4 is wiseacre, as in "The patch of ground that MIT sits on is a very wiseacre"
https://www.merriam-webster.com/word-of-the-day/wiseacre-2026-04-04?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link&utm_campaign=fark&ICID=ref_fark
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Given the spelling and definition of wiseacre, you might guess that the word was formed directly from the familiar adjective wise. And you might be wise to think so—a wiseacre, after all, is someone
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