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.