SMART-ALECKY


Meaning of SMART-ALECKY in English

-kē, -ki adjective

or smart-aleck also smart-alec

: like, typical of, or being a smart aleck : marked by cockiness and conceit : concerned with or striving for smartness and cleverness for their own sake or at the expense of seriousness and responsibility

had never talked that way to the smart-aleck kid before — J.H.Reese

the smart-aleck way you were talking — Alexander Saxton

dismayingly intelligent and a shade smart-alecky — Jean Stafford

five smart-alecky collegians who conspired to rob the till — Bennett Cerf

Webster's New International English Dictionary.      Новый международный словарь английского языка Webster.