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語源

From 中期英語 overe-wyse, over wise, equivalent to over- +‎ wise.

形容詞

overwise (comparative more overwise, superlative most overwise)

1. 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.”

派生語

• overwisely
• overwiseness

関連する語

• overwisdom