Don't be such a smarty.
She's a real smarty and does her job well.
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The suffix -y here is the same as in words like doggy or smarty, used to form nicknames or informal descriptors.—
Erik Kain,
Forbes.com,
15 Sep. 2025 East High's resident smarty-pants, Monique Coleman will be returning in her role as the brilliant Taylor McKessie.—
Amanda Taylor,
Peoplemag,
25 Sep. 2022 The film stars Janelle Monáe in overlapping roles as a 21st-century professional smarty named Veronica and an enslaved woman named Eden who is forced into labor on a cotton plantation.—Washington Post,
18 Sep. 2020 Despite this, the story of still feels as immediate as ever, in large part because of the performances of Daisy Edgar-Jones as the prickly smarty-pants Marianne Sheridan and Paul Mescal as the popular, eager-to-please Connell Waldron.—
Keely Weiss,
Harper's BAZAAR,
29 Apr. 2020 See All Example Sentences for smarty