clever dick

1. 1.

   an intellectual who is ostentatiously and irritatingly knowledgeable

   Synonymsclever clogs

   Broaderintellectual

   United Kingdom

Questions about clever dick

What does clever dick mean?

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

What is another word for clever dick?

Close synonyms include clever clogs. 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 dick a common word?

clever dick 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.