smartass

Speech parts

1. smartass - Noun

2. smartass - Adjective

3. smartass - Verb

Meaning

(vulgar) Synonym of know-it-all, an obnoxious clever person or a person making obnoxious efforts to seem clever.

(vulgar) An insolent person, especially one who makes snide remarks.
Lots of luck, smartass.

smartass (not comparable)

(slang) Related to or characteristic of a smartass.
I have had quite enough of your smartass remarks.

smartass (third-person singular simple present smartasses, present participle smartassing, simple past and past participle smartassed)

(slang) To talk like a smartass, with a lot of snide remarks.

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Examples

Well, I come from a long, long line of smartasses. Smartass is allergic to dumbass. It's actually a physical allergy, as in you're repulsed by dumbasses. Josh Homme

Once when Harry asked Ed why they didn't go back to Toledo, Ed looked at him with that smartass squint and asked, "You ever been to Toledo?" John Updike

I don't try to be completely calculating in everything I say and do, but there's no way I'm going to talk. There's no reason to. And that's why I'm such a boring interview, because I don't go for the shock value, or smartass answers. Chris O'Donnell

Two of my fav pieces of wisdom from Phoebe: - Men are like parking spots. All the good ones are taken, and those that aren't are inaccessible. - Remember, it's always better to be the smartass rather than the dumbass. Jill Shalvis

Father John Misty is the sweetest smartass at the party. Source: Internet

Web, I'm not uptight about words myself - "smartass" is even in my blog heading - but I know that whenever we slip with a less appropriate word around my 4yr old niece, she's repeating it instantly. Source: Internet

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