weisenheimer

plural weisenheimers

1. alternativeAlternative spelling of wisenheimer.

   The joy was bringing out my inner weisenheimer.

   2013, Cory Doctorow, Homeland

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   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.

   1957, J. D. Salinger, “Zooey”, in Franny and Zooey, published 1961

   Sex became what we would term a "cult" hit, drawing young, self-consciously cynical patrons—Variety called them the "jaded weisenheimers"—who were bemused by the novelty of real "dirt" on broadway.

   1997, Marybeth Hamilton, "When I'm Bad, I'm Better": Mae West, Sex, and American Entertainment, page 69

   It was all a joke. A beautiful, well-conceived practical joke. Some weisenheimer, alone and in the area, had crafted the whole thing in just one night before the fire, a can of beer in one hand, a penknife in the other.

   2015, Herman Raucher, Maynard's House, page 98