The word "smarty" is not a correct and usable word in written English.
While it may be used as a nickname for someone who is intelligent, it is generally considered an informal term and not suitable for formal writing.
Unless you're a self-starting smarty who worked out a few years back that plumbers and electricians could never be outsourced, the more useful a job the more likely it seems to be one that gets cut first.
Why don't you write a column about that, smarty pants?
In 2011, he also bought Mental Floss, a smarty pants magazine and Web site aimed at a young, connected demographic.
The older, Porter Anton Yelchinn), one of those teenage smarty pants who roam through American independent cinema, is more grudging.
"They would love to see a false smarty pants decapitated by a real intellectual," Land told me.
"It was the Twenties and we had to be smarty," Dorothy Parker recalled, and, as Harold Ross of The New Yorker advised, "if you can't be funny, be interesting".
And while Powell earned a level of cultural cachet as a result of Page's efforts (Rory Gilmore, the smarty-pants college intellectual in the popular sitcom "Gilmore Girls," once called Powell her favorite underground writer: "She made the jokes that Dorothy Parker got credit for"), she still has a legacy problem.
He speaks from one smarty-pants foodie to another; if you don't relate to it, or at least sympathize with it, his tone is likely to annoy you.
He piles up his words with great skill; no matter how slowly they're sung, the ideas in a Merritt song have momentum, and the cumulative self-portrait that he presents, in his dry singing style — he has a lovely conversational bass voice — is of a queer boy perpetually in search of love, a kind of daffy and sardonic Noël Coward, whose lyrics radiate smarty-pants sophistication.
Likely registering that engaging with Miriam's table entailed simply too much smarty-pants confusion to be worth the bother now, even if he'd tabulated Miriam's presence for some pending shark chase to shore.
In general, Danji is neither orthodox ethnic nor smarty-pants fusion.
