Smart-assとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

smart ass (plural smart asses)

1. (slang, sometimes vulgar) A person regarded with an obnoxiously determined advancement of one's own personality, wishes, or views.

   Synonyms: know-it-all, smart aleck, wiseacre; see also Thesaurus:know-it-all

関連する語

• hard-ass

語源

From smart + -ass.

発音

名詞

smartass (plural smartasses) (mildly vulgar)

1. (slang, vulgar, derogatory) An insolent person, especially one who makes snide remarks.

   Synonym: smart aleck (euphemistic)

   Lots of luck, smartass.

2. Synonym of know-it-all, an obnoxious clever person or a person making obnoxious efforts to seem clever by acting or behaving as if they know everything.

派生語

形容詞

smartass (not comparable)

1. (slang, vulgar, derogatory) Related to or characteristic of a smartass; irritatingly clever or smug.

   I have had quite enough of your smartass remarks.

   • 2019, Abby Chava Stein, Becoming Eve, Seal Press, page 64:

     "That is heresy!" Reb Shimon exclaimed, and then added, "Where do you get such smartass opinions?"

動詞

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

1. (slang, vulgar, derogatory, intransitive) To speak in a condescending manner characterized by frequent sarcastic or disparaging remarks.
   • 2012, Storm Large, Crazy Enough: A Memoir‎:

     I smartassed and smack-talked half of the interview, but as I relaxed a bit more and genuinely talked with them, a strange thing happened.