smartass vs wiseacre

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. 

wiseacre

noun
  • One who feigns knowledge or cleverness; one who is wisecracking; an insolent upstart. 

verb
  • To act like a wiseacre; to wisecrack. 

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