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know-noth⋅ing

[noh-nuhth-ing]
–noun
1. an ignorant or totally uninformed person; ignoramus.
2. an agnostic.
3. (initial capital letters) U.S. History. 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.
–adjective
5. grossly ignorant; totally uninformed.
6. agnostic.
7. (initial capital letters) of or pertaining to the Know-Nothings.
8. of or pertaining to a political know-nothing.

Origin:
1815–25


know-noth⋅ing⋅ism, noun
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