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单词 smart-alecky
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smart-aleckyadj.

Brit. /ˈsmɑːtˌalᵻki/, U.S. /ˈsmɑrdˈæləki/
Forms: also with capital initial(s).
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: smart alec n., -y suffix1.
Etymology: < smart alec n. + -y suffix1.
colloquial (originally U.S.).
Characteristic of a ‘smart alec’; ostentatiously or smugly clever.
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1889 Marion (Ohio) Star 30 Jan. 4/3 A lady must resolve to bear patiently the prying looks and smart-alecky comments if she be brave enough to go down Center street to the postoffice.
1929 J. B. Priestley Good Compan. iii. v. 579 I wouldn't have minded so much if he hadn't been so Smart Alecky about it.
1946 Cosmopolitan Oct. 6/3 His friends tell him that some of his reviews are too smart-alecky, but this Hoffman denies.
1976 National Observer (U.S.) 10 July 8/3 She now writes regularly for New York magazine, though her cautious, measured manner of speaking doesn't seem to fit that magazine's usually brash, smart-alecky tone.
2004 J. Schwartz Troubled Sea 282 One of those new smart alecky auto-everything radios.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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