English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
know-it-all (plural know-it-alls)
- (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[edit]
someone who obnoxiously claims to be knowledgeable on a subject
- Armenian: գիտունիկ (gitunik)
- 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
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- 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
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: bedreviter (no) m, viktigper m, forståsegpåer (no) m, besserwisser m
- 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
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