Upstart vs Wiseacre - What's the difference?
upstart | wiseacre |
One who has suddenly gained wealth, power, or other prominence, but either has not received social acceptance or has become arrogant or presumptuous.
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One who feigns knowledge or cleverness; one who is wisecracking; an insolent upstart.
(obsolete) A learned or wise man.
As nouns the difference between upstart and wiseacre
is that upstart is one who has suddenly gained wealth, power, or other prominence, but either has not received social acceptance or has become arrogant or presumptuous while wiseacre is one who feigns knowledge or cleverness; one who is wisecracking; an insolent upstart.As a adjective upstart
is self-important and presumptuous.As a verb upstart
is to rise suddenly, to spring.upstart
English
Noun
(en noun)- (Francis Bacon)
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Synonyms
* arriviste * nouveau riche * parvenuAnagrams
*wiseacre
English
Noun
(en noun)- Pythagoras learned much becoming a mighty wiseacre . — Leland.