English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
know-it-all (plural know-it-alls)
- (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.
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
someone who obnoxiously claims to be knowledgeable on a subject
- Armenian: ամենագետ (hy) (amenaget), ամենագիտակ (amenagitak)
- Basque: sasijakintsu (eu), sasijakitun
- Catalan: setciències (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 萬事通 (zh), 万事通 (zh) (wànshìtōng)
- Czech: vševěd m
- Dutch: betweter (nl) m, wijsneus (nl) m
- Finnish: kaikkitietävä (fi), besserwisser (fi)
- French: je-sais-tout (fr) m
- Georgian: ჭკუის კოლოფი (č̣ḳuis ḳolopi), ყოვლისმცოდნე (q̇ovlismcodne)
- German: Besserwisser (de) m, Besserwisserin (de) f, Neunmalkluger m, Neunmalkluge f, Rechthaber (de) m, Rechthaberin f, Schulmeister (de) m, Schulmeisterin f, Klugscheißer (de) m, Klugscheißerin (de) f, Schlaumeier (de) m, Schlaumeierin f, Schlauberger m, Schlaubergerin f
- Greek: ξερόλας (el) m (xerólas)
- Italian: sapientone, sa tutto, saputello (it) m, nientologo 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)
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- 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: всезна́йка (ru) m, f (vseznájka), (also a famous protagonist) зна́йка (ru) m, f (znájka)
- Serbo-Croatian: sveznalica (sh) m, f, свезналица m, f
- Spanish: sabelotodo (es), sabiondo (es) m
- Swedish: viktigpetter, besserwisser (sv) c
- Turkish: çok bilmiş (tr)
- West Frisian: wiisprater, wiisnoas
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