overwise
English
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English overe-wyse, over wise, equivalent to over- + wise.
Adjective
[edit]overwise (comparative more overwise, superlative most overwise)
- Excessively wise; too clever for one's own good.
- 1859, Charles Dickens, The Haunted House:
- “Perkins? Bless you, Perkins wouldn’t go a-nigh the place. No!” observed the young man, with considerable feeling; “he ain’t overwise, ain’t Perkins, but he ain’t such a fool as that.”