clever clogs

1. 1.

   an intellectual who is ostentatiously and irritatingly knowledgeable

   Synonymsclever Dick

   Broaderintellectual

   United Kingdom

Questions about clever clogs

What does clever clogs mean?

clever clogs means "an intellectual who is ostentatiously and irritatingly knowledgeable".

What is another word for clever clogs?

Close synonyms include clever Dick. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is clever clogs a common word?

clever clogs is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.