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smarty, n. and a. orig. U.S.|ˈsmɑːtɪ|
Also smartie.
[f. smart a. 11.]
A. n. A would-be smart or witty person; a smartly-dressed person; a member of a smart set.
1861Calif. Mag. Aug. 39/2 ‘Juvenile smartys’ are interesting, even to a vagabond. 1876‘Mark Twain’ Tom Sawyer i. 22 Smarty! You think you're some, now. Ibid. xviii. 156 That Saint Louis smarty that thinks he dresses so fine. 1880― Tramp Abr. xxiii. 198 The village smarties recognized a treasure in Nicodemus, right away—a butt to play jokes on. 1902O. Wister Virginians xxvii, ‘He is a smarty,’ said he, once or twice. 1929D. H. Lawrence Pansies 89 But it is hard to be tolerant with the smarties. 1932Auden Orators ii. 44 Poops and smarties, Who pilfer always but are never whipped. 1933R. Strachey Many Happy Returns ii. 123 A gala night at the ‘Shadwell Palace’, dancing those Limehouse blues with her smartie. 1956L. McIntosh Oxford Folly viii. 118 It's amazing how easy it is for anyone like me, with no background, to pose as an Oxford smartie. 1957M. Millar Soft Talkers xxi. 204 ‘Do you happen to know how much it was?’ ‘No, and neither do you, smartie.’ 1962A. Bourne Doctor's Creed ii. 46 The worst payers were what we used to call the ‘West End Smarties’, flimsy young women who would appear from nowhere with no doctor's letter or tangible recommendations.
B. adj.
a. Smart-alecky; ostentatiously smart.
1883‘Mark Twain’ Life on Mississippi xxxiii. 370 The barkeeper..was gay and smarty and talky. 1940Horizon Feb. 68 Another line of attack is to concede that the first number is interesting, but to add that it is middlebrow and ‘smarty’. 1948M. Allingham More Work for Undertaker vi. 83 He was full of smarty ideas and had no manners. 1960D. Potter Glittering Coffin vi. 96 A smarty gossip column. 1967G. Kelly in Coast to Coast 1965–6 104 The local smarty boys, the privileged class.
b. Special Combs. (also written smarti-), as smarty-boots, (orig. U.S.) -pants colloq., an overly clever person, a know-all, a smart alec; also attrib. or as adj.
1962Times 7 June 16/3 The phoney-ness of a smarti⁓boots Ivy League undergraduate. 1962John o' London's 22 Nov. 467/1 A cold, well-bred English smarty-boots. 1965J. Porter Dover Two xiii. 166 He was grateful that smartie-boots MacGregor had overlooked the obvious, too. 1970Sunday Times (Colour Suppl.) 6 Dec. 31/3 His self-confidence and satisfaction in his own life got under people's skin..phrases like ‘Smartie Boots’ were attached to him. 1979Guardian 12 Nov. 13/7, I am not trying to be wilfully iconoclastic or smarty-boots when I say that..Picasso simply is not the greatest painter of the 20th century.
1941B. Schulberg What makes Sammy Run? iv. 57 One of those Vassar smarty-pants. 1953M. Dickens No More Meadows vi. 266 [Amer. loq.] He jumped right in with his slick talk... That smarty pants. 1967N. Marsh Death at Dolphin viii. 199 Hawkins, Mr. Smartypants, has a little chat. 1969Punch 26 Mar. 465/3 Cage Me a Leacock (BBC-2) owed everything—though not, I hope, the smarty-pants title—to Braden's enormous enthusiasm for his subject. 1976Listener 24 June 815/2 Technologically outclassed and outsold by pinstriped smartipants from foreign business schools. 1981Times Lit. Suppl. 13 Feb. 158/3 The smarty-pants youthfulness is very period. |