Know-nothingism

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• Nothingism

  ·noun Nihility; nothingness. ...

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• Know

  ·noun <<Knee>>. II. Know ·vi To have sexual commerce with. III. Know ·vi To be assured; to feel co...

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• Do-nothingism

  ·noun ·Alt. of Do-nothingness. ...

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• Know-all

  ·noun One who knows everything; hence, one who makes pretension to great knowledge; a wiseacre; — u...

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• Know-nothing

  ·noun A member of a secret political organization in the United States, the chief objects of which w...

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• know-nothing

  Utterly ignorant. Ex. 'A poor know-nothing creature, i. e. one exceedingly ignorant.--Norfolk Glossa...

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• copt-know

  the top of a conical hill, from COPT, ...

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• to know b from a

  bull's foot. It is a common phrase to say, "He does not know B from a bull's foot," meaning that a p...

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• i don't know as i shan't

  for I don't know but I shall. This uncouth expression, Mr. Hurd says, is very common in the eastern ...

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