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smartarse

smartarse is the alternative form of smart arse.

Meaning of smart arse

Noun

smart arse (plural smart arses)

  1. (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

Forms of smartarse

pluralsmartarses

Questions about smartarse

What is smartarse the alternative form of?
Smartarse is the alternative form of smart arse.

Words near smartarse in the dictionary

  1. smart-mouths
  2. smart-reference proxies
  3. smart-reference proxy
  4. smart-sized
  5. Smarta
  6. smartarse
  7. smartarsed
  8. smartarses
  9. Smartas
  10. smartass
  11. smartassed

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Adapted from Wiktionary: smartarse (page history and authors); smart arse (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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