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weisenheimer

weisenheimer

English

Noun

weisenheimer (plural weisenheimers)

  1. Alternative spelling of wisenheimer
    • 1957, J. D. Salinger, "Zooey", in, 1961, Franny and Zooey:
      We knew there's no keeping a born scholar ignorant, and at heart, I think, we didn't really want to, but we were nervous, even frightened, at the statistics on child pedants and academic weisenheimers who grow up into faculty-recreation-room savants.