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witling

[wit-ling] / ˈwɪt lɪŋ /


NOUN
smarty
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NOUN
smarty-pants/smarty pants
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One Presidential pretender out to out-stump Tom Dewey and all the rest is the Surprise Party's nominee�Gracie Allen, witling half of the radio & cinema team of Burns & Allen.

From Time Magazine Archive

It could not, with the witling in the play, cap verses with any man.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 11, September, 1858 by Various

Its title was "The End of the Comedy"; and a wretched witling pretended that the piece was ill-named, since the pit refused to see the end of the comedy.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864 by Various

The author was a learned witling, but in no respect a poet.

From Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature by Black, John

Show me a perfectly happy man, and I will show you an ignorant witling, light-headed, hardhearted, and of a most powerfully good digestion!

From Ardath by Corelli, Marie