know-it-all

English

know-it-all (plural know-it-alls)

(chiefly US, derogatory) 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.

someone who obnoxiously claims to be knowledgeable on a subject

Armenian: ամենագետ (hy) (amenaget), ամենագիտակ (amenagitak)
Basque: sasijakintsu (eu), sasijakitun
Catalan: setciències (ca), mestretites (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), ξερόλα f (xeróla)
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, mądrala (pl) m or f
Portuguese: sabichão (pt) m, sabichona f, sabe-tudo m or f
Russian: всезна́йка (ru) m or f (vseznájka), (also a famous protagonist) зна́йка (ru) m or f (znájka)
Serbo-Croatian: sveznalica (sh) m or f, свезналица m or f
Spanish: sabelotodo (es), sabiondo (es) m, todólogo, cuñado (es) m (Spain)
Swedish: viktigpetter, besserwisser (sv) c
Turkish: çok bilmiş (tr)
West Frisian: wiisprater, wiisnoas

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