clever arse vs smartass

clever arse

noun
  • A person who annoyingly tries too hard to impress with their cleverness; a clever dick. 

smartass

noun
  • Synonym of know-it-all, an obnoxious clever person or a person making obnoxious efforts to seem clever. 

  • An insolent person, especially one who makes snide remarks. 

adj
  • Related to or characteristic of a smartass. 

verb
  • To talk like a smartass, with a lot of snide remarks. 

How often have the words clever arse and smartass occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )