英语词汇wiseguy的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	wiseguy
词源	wiseguy. Originally, since the early 1900s, wiseguy meant “a smug know-it-all, a shrewd person.” It has since become anoth- er name for a member of the Mafia, made famous in Nicholas Pileggi and Henry Hill’s book Wiseguys (1985), which became the movie Goodfellas (1990).
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