smart aleck

smart aleck

noun

Definition of SMART ALECK

a person who likes to show off in a clever but annoying way <some smart aleck in the audience kept shouting clever insults at the nervous speaker>

Synonyms smarty (or smartie), smarty-pants, wiseacre, wiseass, wise guy, wisenheimer (also weisenheimer)

Related Words know-all [chiefly British], know-it-all; wisecracker; hotshot, show-off

Variants of SMART ALECK

smart aleck also smart alec