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smart-allecky

smart-allecky is the alternative spelling of smart-alecky.

Meaning of smart-alecky

Adjective

smart-alecky (comparative more smart-alecky, superlative most smart-alecky)

  1. Having the quality of a smart aleck; rude, disrespectful.
    • The Katzenjammer Kids were fun because they made the adults look stupid. But they were a little too smart-alecky for my taste.1969, Maya Angelou, chapter 11, in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, New York: Bantam, published 1971, pages 63–64

Forms of smart-allecky

comparativemore smart-allecky
superlativemost smart-allecky

Questions about smart-allecky

What is smart-allecky the alternative spelling of?
Smart-allecky is the alternative spelling of smart-alecky.

Words near smart-allecky in the dictionary

  1. smart watches
  2. smart-alec
  3. smart-aleck
  4. smart-aleckism
  5. smart-alecky
  6. smart-allecky
  7. smart-arse
  8. smart-arsed
  9. smart-arses
  10. smart-ass
  11. smart-asses

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