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the vb.-stem in comb. forming adjs. and ns. mostly nonce-words. know-all, one who knows or professes to know everything; also attrib. or as adj., full of knowledge; esp., deaf to advice or instruction; so know-it-all; know-all-about-it a., having the air of knowing all about something; know-every-thingism, pretension to universal knowledge; know-little, a simpleton; know-not-what, an indescribable something; † know-thy-master, a name given to the sweating sickness; † know-worth a., worth knowing. Also know-nothing.
1881Tennyson Tiresias (1885) 49 We have knelt in your *know-all chapel. 1895Westm. Gaz. 29 Nov. 3/1 Nothing must be hidden from this Imperial Know-All. 1906Daily Chron. 30 Aug. 3/4 He..maintains in his know-all manner that the two counties of Wigtown and Kirkcudbright..were integral parts always of the kingdom of Scotland. 1923D. H. Lawrence Birds, Beasts & Flowers 185 Fool, in spite of your pretty ways, and quaint, know-all, wrinkled old aunty's face.
1895Outing (U.S.) XXVII. 65/1, I have no desire to send a young *know-it-all to the shop. 1935Wodehouse Blandings Castle ix. 225 These know-it-all directors make me tired. 1956H. Gold Man who was not with It (1965) ii. 16 He looked over the apprehensive afternoon crowd with its know-it-all faces. 1959Encounter XIII. ii. 57 All big smart know-it-all Marxists. 1974Times 23 Jan. 1/8 We didn't realize, until it was too late, how our know-it-all attitude was undermining the self-assurance of parents.
1887Ruskin in Spielmann Life (1900) 193 Their girls have an energetic and business-like ‘*know-all-about-it’ kind of prettiness.
1868G. Stephens Runic Mon. I. p. xvii, The ignorance and insolence of modern *know-every-thingism, that is of modern sciolism.
1651Wittie tr. Primrose's Pop. Err. iv. xliii. 386 The same might be said of some *know-littles that practice Physick. 1877Furnivall Introd. Leopold Shaks. p. cxix, Wooden-heads and pert know-littles, we've had in plenty.
a1641Suckling Fragm. Aurea, Sonn. ii, I ask no red and white..Black eyes, or little *know-not-whats, in faces. a1681R. Allestree Serm. 297 (L.) Exact features, perfect harmony of colours,..a graceful presence, cheerful air, and all those other know not whats.
1551in Archæologia XXXVIII. 107 The Swatt called new acquyntance, alles Stoupe knave and *know thy Master, began the xxiiijth of this monethe [June] 1551.
1598E. Guilpin Skial. Ep. xliv, Phrix hath a nose: who doubts what ech man knowes? But what hath Phrix *know-worth besides his nose? |