know-nothing
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know-noth·ing
(nō′nŭth′ĭng)n.
1. A totally ignorant person; an ignoramus.
2. An anti-intellectual.
3. An agnostic.
4. Know-Nothing A member of a political party in the United States during the 1850s that was antagonistic toward recent immigrants and Roman Catholics.
know′-noth′ing·ism n.
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know-nothing
n
informal derogatory an ignorant person
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know′-noth`ing
n.
1. an ignorant or totally uninformed person; ignoramus.
2. (caps.) a member of a U.S. political party of the 1850s, whose aim was to exclude Catholics and the foreign-born from political participation: so called because members professed ignorance of the party's activities.
3. an agnostic.
[1815–25]
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