smart arse
noun1
Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, Idiomatic One who is particularly flippant or insolent or tends to make snide remarks or jokes.
- ‘That Howard kid is a smart-arse little bugger!’1982, Paul Radley, My Blue-Checker Corker and Me, Sydney: Fontana/Collins, page 51:
- Synonyms
- know-all, know-it-all, smart alec, smart ass, wiseacre, wise guy
- Derived terms
- smart-arsed