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smart·y

 (smär′tē)
n. pl. smart·ies Informal
1. A smart aleck.
2. A quick-witted person.
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smarty

(ˈsmɑːtɪ) or

smartie

n
informal a would-be clever person
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smart′ al`eck

(or al`ec)

(ˈæl ɪk)
n. Informal.
an obnoxiously conceited and impertinent person.
[1860–65, Amer.; generic use of Aleck, nickname for Alexander]
smart′-al`eck•y, smart′-al`eck, adj.
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smarty

noun
Informal. One who is obnoxiously self-assertive and arrogant:
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Translations

smarty

[ˈsmɑːtɪ] N (also smarty-pants) → sabelotodo mf
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smarty(-pants)

n sing (inf)Schlaumeier(in) m(f), → Schlauberger(in) m(f) (inf)
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The Wilton Centre have all come together and raised funds for us through our Smartie Tube appeal.
Shifnal TG Last year Shifnal TG supported Jo Bradley, of East Shropshire Trefoil Guild, by giving her money from our Smartie tube collection.
The parent council is organising a fundraising event that will take place early next year and has given each pupil a Smartie tube asking them to fill it with coins to help to raise money for resources for the school.
These included a stroll through Garendon Park, cake and bring and buy stall, a breakfast and soup lunch, 'smartie tube' coin collection, together with the traditional limited house to house, and church Lent collections.
He explained: "They were bribed with one Smartie here and one Smartie there, so as soon as the kids came on to the set I immediately just shouted, 'Who likes Smarties?'
I know the reason why she is refusing to eat, if I offered my children the option of spinach or a Smartie, they would choose the Smartie, so unless there is 100 per cent compliance from the entire family, no bits of bacon for breakfast, steak or chicken for dinner, biscuit crumbs, half-eaten sandwiches, we haven't a chance at getting Giggles weaned onto proper dog food.
SMARTIE the grey pony was kicking at her belly and rolling in pain.
Scheffler, who was born in Germany and studied in the UK and New York, will be discussing his newest book, The Ugly Five, as well as the Smartie Winner The Gruffalo and The Highway Rat - which was screened on BBC One last Christmas.
But then the teachers who sent children home with empty Smartie tubes so their parents could fill them with coins didn't much like doing that either.
David Gordon, prosecuting, told a trial that text messages between the pair discussing Poppy having a "blue Smartie" - a reference to the sedative diazapam - and going to sleep showed that Pyke viewed Poppy as an "inconvenience, who she felt was in the way with regards her relationship".