Footnotes editor's definitions

smarty-pants

1. (n) a smart aleck
2. (n) a person who knows that the word "lul-a-bye" comes from the Saxon words “lul,” meaning "to sing," and “bye,” meaning "to sleep," and then brags about it in the weekly email newsletter.

Example: Kristy is such a smarty-pants.

by Footnotes editor March 19, 2006