English [ edit ] Alternative forms [ edit ] know -it -all plural know-it-alls
( chiefly US , pejorative ) Someone who claims to be knowledgeable or an expert in something, obnoxiously dismissing the opinions, advice, suggestions, etc. of others.
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 )
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 )
Polish: przemądrzalec m mądraliński m
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
