Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun plural A smart aleck.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Nothing smarty-pants about that, just a useful sound-bite guideline that I try to keep posted in my head.
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Nothing smarty-pants about that, just a useful sound-bite guideline that I try to keep posted in my head.
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He loves tweaking those uppity East Coast, smarty-pants liberals.
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All my smarty-pants friends have commented that I've finally bothered.
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The two firms embarked on a potentially glorious, industry-changing alliance in which the veteran Jobs would lend his expertise and wisdom to the smarty-pants Internet kids and the two firms together would take down Microsoft.
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The two firms embarked on a potentially glorious, industry-changing alliance in which the veteran Jobs would lend his expertise and wisdom to the smarty-pants Internet kids and the two firms together would take down Microsoft.
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I felt like The Wicked Child at the Seder last night, but, being a good goyische guest, I kept my smarty-pants moyl shut when someone talked about the inspiring "true" story about the quilts that mapped the way to the North for enslaved African Americans before the Civil War.
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In a review that aspires to be no more than a compatibility assessment for populists it basically translates to “smarty-pants”, stands as a marker of a philistine grudge against the audacity of ambition.
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I felt like The Wicked Child at the Seder last night, but, being a good goyische guest, I kept my smarty-pants moyl shut when someone talked about the inspiring "true" story about the quilts that mapped the way to the North for enslaved African Americans before the Civil War.
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The "justice system" falied this time, in other words, the smarty-pants activist judges from ivy-league institutions have flexed their muscles all the way down in Arkansas.
tammanycall commented on the word smarty-pants
smart aleck, smart ass, smarty. That smarty-pants always gives a flip answer.
April 15, 2009
strev commented on the word smarty-pants
Wonder why "clever trousers" never took off?
April 17, 2009