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know-it-all (n.)
"one deemed (over)full of information or correct answers," 1895, from verbal phrase; see
know
(v.). Earlier in the same sense was
know-all
(1862); and
Mr. Know-All
was a minor character in Bunyan's "The Holy War" (1682).