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  • noun Alternative form of smart arse.

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Examples

  • It comes from the part of one's brain marked 'smartarse' and this part was clangalangalanging, and shouting HOUSE! at the top of its oh-so-clever chops - almost as soon as I spied the red plastic case containing 'White Feather'.

    Drowned In Sound // Feed Wendy Roby 2010

  • Its another "smartarse" mackem hoax so stop giving them the ammo they need and crave to take the piss.

    Soccer Blogs - latest posts 2009

  • I was being a rhetorical smartarse, with a reference to Sgt Stedenko from Cheech & Chong.

    Cheeseburger Gothic » Might do a coupla writing blogs. 2010

  • Here's Sarah Palin (remember her?), sitting at her laptop, polishing up her good ole regular mom image ready for campaigning in 2012? and, wouldn't you know it, some smartarse journalist comes along and spoils it.

    Diary 2010

  • Daniel Abraham has the toughest job to pull off her with the multi-story Jonathan Hive tales, going from smartarse blogger, to vaguely panicked smartarse war correspondent.

    Superhero Prose Fiction: Wild Cards - 18 Inside Straight Blue Tyson 2008

  • An uptight young smartarse editor travels out into the middle of nowhere determined that HE can be the one to rehabilitate a famously reclusive writer who hasn't written a book in 20 years.

    Crowdsource: Favorite Film about the Creative Process? 2010

  • Her vocal style has always been a Marmite matter – for everyone who thought it the height of insouciant cool, there was someone for whom it sounded like a 14-year-old smartarse answering the teacher back – but here it's frequently distorted and Daleked into oblivion.

    MIA: Maya | CD Review 2010

  • Except then some smartarse decided that since they were doing metric measurment, they should really do metric time as well.

    Archive 2008-06-01 lili 2008

  • Some metrosexual at the BBC probaly called Rupert or Tarquin said '' I know lets copy smartarse Jon Stewert, he's popular.

    Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I... 2010

  • Except then some smartarse decided that since they were doing metric measurment, they should really do metric time as well.

    Measuring Up #3 lili 2008

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