Meanings
verb
- participlepastsimple past and past participle of smart off
Ben had smarted off to the principal and Lester had backed him up. Nobody smarted off to Mr. Clontz and got away with it.
2002, Celia H. Miles, Mattie's Girl: An Appalachian Childhood, page 62
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