| 单词 | know-nothing |
| 释义 | know-nothing —know-nothingism, n. /noh"nuth'ing/, n. 1. an ignorant or totally uninformed person; ignoramus. 2. an agnostic. 3. (caps.) U.S. Hist. a member of a political party (American party or Know-Nothing party) prominent from 1853 to 1856, whose aim was to keep control of the government in the hands of native-born citizens: so called because members originally professed ignorance of the party's activities. 4. a person whose anti-intellectualism, xenophobia, and other political attitudes recall the Know-Nothings. adj. 5. grossly ignorant; totally uninformed. 6. agnostic. 7. (caps.) of or pertaining to the Know-Nothings. 8. of or pertaining to a political know-nothing. [1815-25] |
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