Lisa Simpson

noun

A precociously smart and organized girl who may be perceived as a pushy know-it-all, a goody two-shoes and a bore.

Meanings

nounLisa Simpson (plural Lisa Simpsons)

plural Lisa Simpsons

  1. A precociously smart and organized girl who may be perceived as a pushy know-it-all, a goody two-shoes and a bore.

    Scully knows Napier's constant off the top of her head: the Lisa Simpson of the FBI.

    2013, Paul Cornell, Martin Day, Keith Topping, X-Treme Possibilities: A Paranoid Rummage Through The X-Files, Orion
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    This is why getting the Lisa Simpsons of the world to sit down with the Joan Walters [director of the Bureau of the Budget] and David Roberts [director of the Department on Aging] of the world was so important

    1997, Voices for Illinois Children, 1996-1997, Voices for Illinois Children, Chicago, page 33

    Funny thing though, Sierra was such a goody-two-shoes that this would probably never apply to her, but regardless, it made her content. She was the Lisa Simpson of the family, at least that's what her parents would tell her all the time.

    2020, Kayando Wolf, The Redwoods

    attended. I was the Lisa Simpson of the office—informed, well-meaning, but, I'm sure, really annoying. And by being a "good girl" (groan, GOD, no), I was given responsibilities far beyond my pay grade, which helped me climb the corporate ladder with speed.

    2024, Tara Schuster, Glow in the F*cking Dark: Simple Practices to Heal Your Soul, from Someone Who Learned the Hard Way, Random House Publishing Group, page 179

Origin

After the character in the animated television sitcom The Simpsons.

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Lisa Simpson. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Lisa%20Simpson

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