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Know-all   /noʊ-ɔl/   Listen
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Know-all  n.  One who knows everything; hence, one who makes pretension to great knowledge; a wiseacre; a know-it-all; usually ironical. (Colloq. or R.)






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Know-all" Quotes from Famous Books



... more than a young, naive creature from the country, childishly keen to do everything and go everywhere at fever heat—something more than the very epitome of triumphant youth as clean and sweet as apple blossoms, with whom to flirt and pose as being the blase man of the world, the Mr. Know-All of civilization, a wild flower in a hot house. Attracted at once by her exquisite coloring and delicious profile, and amused by her imperative manner and intolerant point of view, he had now begun to be piqued and intrigued by her insurgent way of treating marriage and of ignoring her husband—by ...
— Who Cares? • Cosmo Hamilton

... time, there was one of the happy quaternity who, from his years on the hills, and his services in times of trial and danger, and one thing and another, fell always, and with the finest humility too, into the foremost place, and his name, as you have already heard, was Knowledge. Old Mr. Know-all the children in the villages below ran after him and named him as they clustered round his staff and hid in the great folds of his ...
— Bunyan Characters - First Series • Alexander Whyte



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