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CLEVER CLOGS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does clever clogs mean?
• CLEVER CLOGS (noun)
The noun CLEVER CLOGS has 1 sense:
1. an intellectual who is ostentatiously and irritatingly knowledgeable
Familiarity information: CLEVER CLOGS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
An intellectual who is ostentatiously and irritatingly knowledgeable
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
clever clogs; clever Dick
Hypernyms ("clever clogs" is a kind of...):
intellect; intellectual (a person who uses the mind creatively)
Domain region:
Britain; 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; 'Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom)
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