smarty-pants
smart aleck: He's just a smarty-pants, showing off for some girls.
a smart person: My kid is a super smarty-pants who continues to get 4s on her state exams.
(used as a mildly abusive term of address or to refer to someone with contempt): Who invited that smarty-pants--everyone hates her!
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How to use smarty-pants in a sentence
Republican strategists have for years skewered smarty-pants Democrats as Ivy League elitists—often with good reason.
British Dictionary definitions for smarty-pants
smarty-boots (ˈsmɑːtɪˌbuːts)
/ (ˈsmɑːtɪˌpænts) /
(functioning as singular) informal a would-be clever person
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