Meanings
verb
- gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of outsmart
nounoutsmarting (plural outsmartings)
plural outsmartings
- An instance of somebody being outsmarted.
If I am five years old I perceive Bugs as a funny bunny with a unique voice and I appreciate his slapstick pie-in-the-face humor, especially his manipulations and outsmartings of Elmer Fudd, his arch nemesis.
2010, George Comstock, Erica Scharrer, Media and the American Child, page 61
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