Know-Nothing
nounEtymology
Essentially deverbal in nature, albeit not from a unitary phrasal verb. Compare do-nothing § Etymology.
Definitions
A member of a secret antiforeigner political organization in the nineteenth-century…
A member of a secret antiforeigner political organization in the nineteenth-century United States.
Ignorant
Ignorant; characterized by foolish denial of facts or beliefs in that which is not true.
- All over the world, know-nothing xenophobes are claiming – without evidence – that climate science is rigged.
An ignorant person
An ignorant person; one who lacks knowledge.
The neighborhood
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No curated loop yet for Know-Nothing. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA