smartaleck

smartaleck
smart al·eck (ălʹĭk) n. Informal
1. A person regarded as obnoxiously self-assertive.
2. An impudent person.
  [Perhaps afterAleck Hoag, 19th-century American confidence man and thief.]   smartʹ-al'eck (smärtʹăl'ĭk) or smartʹ-al'eck·y (-ĭ-kē) adj.

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