pedant vs wiseass

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. 

wiseass

noun
  • One who makes wisecracks, particularly in a sassy or cocky fashion. 

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