Glossary entry

English term or phrase:

Smarty Pants

French translation:

Futé

Added to glossary by Kevin Oheix
Aug 1, 2018 12:17
5 yrs ago
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English term

Smarty Pants

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Niveaux de jeu:

"Student
Skilled
Smarty Pants
Knowledgeable
Knowtastic"

merci d'avance !
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Aug 15, 2018 13:42: Kevin Oheix Created KOG entry

Proposed translations

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futé / roublard

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- petit génie (ingénieux), débrouillard

"Les roublards s'appuient sur ​​la compétence, la discrétion et les faiblesses de leurs ennemis pour prendre la main dans n'importe quelle situation. Ils ont le don de trouver la solution à n'importe quel problème, démontrant une ingéniosité et une polyvalence qui est la pierre angulaire de toute aventure réussie".

https://www.aidedd.org/regles/classes/roublard/
Peer comment(s):

agree Jocelyne Cuenin : Le rapprochement fute / pants et futé a de quoi faire sourire ! Mais je ne saurais pas le traduire sans contexte.
7 hrs
Ah oui, exact, le futal est le pantalon. Registre familier de plus. Merci.
agree Daryo
10 hrs
agree B D Finch
11 hrs
agree Zeineb Nalouti
14 hrs
agree Debora Blake : "futé" : très bien trouvé !
14 hrs
neutral FX Fraipont (X) : "someone who wants to appear to be clever: " pas du tout le sens de "roublard"...
19 hrs
neutral Tony M : This suggests to me an almost admiring tone, rather at odds with the admonitory ironic tone of the original expression.
19 hrs
agree GILLES MEUNIER
1 day 11 hrs
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6 hrs

audacieux

In English:
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/fr/dictionnaire/anglais/sma...
Someone who wants to appear to be clever (informal)

En français :
(normalement cela correspondrait à snob, arrogant, effronté, impertinent, impudent etc. - mais ici on doit le nuancer de façon plus positive - c'est plus qu'un débutant, mais moins que "knowledgeable" qui est réellement instruit et compétent)

> je proposerais audacieux, intrépide, hardi, casse-cou, téméraire
Peer comment(s):

neutral Tony M : But surely that really connotes 'brave / daring', which is not really the idea here; I was going to say something like 'astucieux', to better convey the notion of soemone who's pretty good at sorting things out...
37 mins
Thank you. I read it differently - I was thinking more of someone who is already skilled and is becoming a little over-confident, but without yet being truly knowledgeable. To me, "smarty pants" is not the same as "smart."
neutral Daryo : makes little sense in this context - which is a list of increasing levels of skill at playing this game - "overconfident" / "audacieux"is NOT a level of skill
11 hrs
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-1
7 hrs

Parties compliquées

Suggéré
Peer comment(s):

disagree Tony M : I can't see how that could in any way reflect the sense of the source term? Are you getting confused between 'pants' and 'party'?
21 hrs
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1 day 31 mins

débrouillard

Compte-tenu du contexte, je pencherais plus pour "débrouillard" : une personne qui sait, un peu, mais/et qui trouve des solutions (quitte à se tromper, parfois).
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1 day 4 hrs

(monsieur) je-sais-tout

"monsieur Je-sais-tout / Bob | ABC de la langue française - Définition ...
http://www.languefrancaise.net/Bob/34764
Mot: monsieur Je-sais-tout — Définition: Sobriquet ironique donné à celui qui semble avoir la réponse à tout ; ironiquement, à qqun qui croit tout savoir ..."

"someone who wants to appear to be clever:
[ as form of address ] Okay, smarty-pants, you tell me how to do it. "
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/smarty-p...

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Note added at 1 day 4 hrs (2018-08-02 16:53:01 GMT)
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"smarty pants : a smarty
informal : A know-all."
https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/smarty
Peer comment(s):

agree Tony M : Yup, to me that captures the essence of 'clever clogs' etc. — someone who THINKS they know it all, but one step down from the actual knowledgeable person!
26 mins
thanks Tony!
agree Jane F
16 hrs
thanks!
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