wise-ass, you

wise-ass, you
   A variant of the ‘smart-ass’, ‘wise-guy’ group, used by American rather than British speakers, but not in polite society. There is an example of its use in Moviola, by Garson Kanin: ‘“I’m on the nine-oclock flight,” I said. ‘You stay where you are, wise-ass.”’

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