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smart-arse, -ass, a. and n. slang.|ˈsmɑːtɑːs, -æs|
Also as one word without hyphen and as two words.
[f. smart a. + arse n., ass n.2]
= smart alec.
Only the form with -ass is current in the U.S.
1962J. D. MacDonald Girl, Gold Watch & Everything ix. 118 Some smart-ass crowd set up all the confusion so as they could clean out them stores. 1965W. Dick Bunch of Ratbags 245 Anyhow, where else could we go, do you know, smartarse? 1970B. Oakley Salute to Great McCarthy 28 That smart arse from the city. 1972D. Delman Week to Kill 115 But you've got a smart-ass answer for that, haven't you? 1972P. Marks Collector's Choice ii. 102 You're too pretty to be such a smart-ass. Just watch your step. 1973Guardian 24 Feb. 8/5 A picture of a rose..needn't be just beautiful, or decorative, or a matter of smart-arse graphics. 1975Time Out 9 May 13/2 When I'm hyping a film, as I'm doing now, I try not to get too smartass and articulate. 1977Private Eye 1 Apr. 23/4 (Advt.), Get it together to put down pseuds, poseurs and general smartasses. 1981J. Barnett Firing Squad x. 92 He had indulged in reckless speculation... He was just as much a smart-arse as the Farnham D.I.
So ˈsmart-ass v. trans., to say in a smart-alecky manner; intr. and trans., to behave in a smart-alecky manner (towards). ˈsmart-arsed, -assed adjs., smart-alecky.
1960P. Blondal Candle to light Sun 191 A lot of smart⁓assed novelists would have you believe they're dirt-coat. 1962A. Seymour One Day of Year 49 Going round with smart-arsed little sheilas from the North Shore. It's all wrong, son. 1970E. Tidyman Shaft (1971) vii. 95 ‘You can complain to the union,’ he had smart-assed Persons, ‘but twelve-fifty an hour is only my rate for living. I get a lot more for dying.’ 1971R. Thomas Backup Men iv. 31 Is that supposed to be a smartassed answer? 1976R. B. Parker Promised Land xix. 115 Don't smart-ass with me, Johnny, or you'll be looking very close at the floor. 1977J. Wainwright Day of Peppercorn Kill 68 No smart-arsed lawyer's going to shift my evidence. 1978F. Ross Sleeping Dogs 152 ‘I guess it's something to do with the generation gap, sir.’ ‘Don't smart-ass me!’ 1979Globe & Mail (Toronto) 15 Sept. 42/1 It is tempting to be smart-assed when reviewing a Richard Rohmer novel. |