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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. 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.
2. An insolent person, especially one who makes snide remarks.

   Lots of luck, smartass.

同意語

• smart aleck

派生語

形容詞

smartass (not comparable)

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