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CLEVER DICK

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• CLEVER DICK (noun)
The noun CLEVER DICK has 1 sense:

1. an intellectual who is ostentatiously and irritatingly knowledgeable

Familiarity information: CLEVER DICK used as a noun is very rare.

• CLEVER DICK (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

An intellectual who is ostentatiously and irritatingly knowledgeable

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

clever clogs; clever Dick

Hypernyms ("clever Dick" is a kind of...):

intellect; intellectual (a person who uses the mind creatively)

Domain region:

Britain; GB; Great Britain; U.K.; UK; United Kingdom; United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland)

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