pedant vs smartass

pedant

noun
  • A person who makes an excessive or tedious show of their knowledge, especially regarding rules of vocabulary and grammar. 

  • A person who is overly concerned with formal rules and trivial points of learning. 

adj
  • Pedantic. 

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. 

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

adj
  • Related to or characteristic of a smartass. 

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