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Smarty vs Smartly - What's the difference?

smarty | smartly |

As a noun smarty

is an obnoxiously clever or quick-witted person; a smart aleck.

As an adverb smartly is

in a smart manner.

smarty

English

Alternative forms

*smartie

Noun

(smarties)
  • An obnoxiously clever or quick-witted person; a smart aleck.

    • Related terms

    * smartypants

    See also

    * know-it-all

    smartly

    English

    Adverb

    (-)
  • In a smart manner.
  • :
  • Quickly.
  • *
  • *:She wakened in sharp panic, bewildered by the grotesquerie of some half-remembered dream in contrast with the harshness of inclement fact, drowsily realising that since she had fallen asleep it had come on to rain smartly out of a shrouded sky.
  • Intelligently.