know-all
Americannoun
noun
"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012Etymology
Origin of know-all
First recorded in 1880–85
Example Sentences
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"His vision of the Church was very much the old-style triumphalist Catholicism, the know-all Catholicism."
From BBC
Take the quiz below to find out if you are a Tuchel know-all...
From BBC
Tobin was Tiffany’s manager, and an almost hilariously cliched one: a dominant, abrasive, controlling know-all.
From The Guardian
The book clearly recognizes what it is not: a read-all, know-all drag opus.
From Washington Post
Instead, he launched an assault on the very idea of the narrator, whom he branded a “know-all.”
From The New Yorker
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