sabelotodo

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Spanish

Etymology

Verb-object compound, composed of sabe (to know) +‎ lo (it) +‎ todo (all), literally know it all.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sabeloˈtodo/ [sa.β̞e.loˈt̪o.ð̞o]
  • Audio (Venezuela):(file)
  • Rhymes: -odo
  • Syllabification: sa‧be‧lo‧to‧do

Noun

sabelotodo m or f by sense (plural sabelotodos)

  1. (familiar) know-it-all
    Synonym: sabiondo
    • 2020 September 23, “Venganza, enredos y trapos sucios en Saint-Germain-des-Près”, in El País[1]:
      A Entoven padre lo retrata como a un ingenuo que se cuidó poco de la educación del hijo y, al mismo tiempo, lo consideraba su “obra maestra”: un repelente sabelotodo, un niño prodigio de Saint-Germain-des-Près, el barrio del poder intelectual parisino.
      He portrays Entoven Sr. as a naive man who took little care of his son's education and, at the same time, considered him his “master work”: a repulsive know-it-all, a child prodigy from Saint-Germain-des-Près, the neighborhood of Parisian intellectual power.

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