wisecracking

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English

Adjective

wisecracking (comparative more wisecracking, superlative most wisecracking)

  1. Making many wisecracks.
    a wisecracking narrator
    • 2007 November 13, Natalie Angier, “In Hollywood Hives, the Males Rule”, in The New York Times:
      In his new animated film, Jerry Seinfeld plays Barry B. Benson, a wisecracking, moony-eyed, charmingly petulant New York honeybee who doesn't want to spend his days as a worker bee stuck on the honeymaking assembly line.

Verb

wisecracking

  1. present participle and gerund of wisecrack