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English
Etymology
From Middle English overe-wyse, over wise, equivalent to over- + wise.
Adjective
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.”
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