know-it-all

English

Alternative forms

• (UK, Ireland) know-all

Noun

know-it-all (plural know-it-alls)

1. (chiefly US) (pejorative) Someone who obnoxiously claims to be knowledgeable on a subject.

   We had it all figured out, but this know-it-all marched in with "the correct way of solving it", leaving our experiment in shambles.

Translations

someone who obnoxiously claims to be knowledgeable on a subject

• Armenian: ամենագետ (amenaget), ամենագիտակ (amenagitak)
• Basque: sasijakintsu (eu), sasijakitun
• Catalan: setciències
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 萬事通, 万事通 (zh) (wànshìtōng)

• Czech: vševěd m
• Dutch: betweter (nl) m, wijsneus (nl) m
• Finnish: kaikkitietävä, besserwisser (fi)
• French: M. Je-Sais-Tout (fr) m
• German: Besserwisser (de) m, Neunmalkluger m, Rechthaber (de) m, Schulmeister (de) m, Klugscheißer (de) m, Schlaumeier (de) m, Schlauberger m
• Italian: sapientone, sa tutto, saputello m

• Japanese: 知ったかぶりをする人 (ja) (しったかぶりをするひと, shittakaburi o suru hito) (no exact term exists, the term for the action is idiomatic)
• Macedonian: сезнајко m (séznajko)
• Maori: whakaputa mōhio, ngutu huia
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: bedreviter (no) m, viktigper m, forståsegpåer (no) m, besserwisser m

• Persian: علامه دهر ('allâme-ye dahr)
• Portuguese: sabichão (pt) m, sabichona f, sabe-tudo m f
• Russian: всезнайка (ru) m, f (vseznájka), (also a famous protagonist) знайка (ru) m, f (znájka)
• Spanish: sabelotodo, sabiondo m
• Swedish: viktigpetter, besserwisser (sv) c
• West Frisian: wiisprater, wiisnoas