"Besserwisser" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1973, Robert G. Collins, Kenneth McRobbie, The Eastern European Imagination in Literature, page 103:",
          "text": "They are not Besserwissers; they just know better because they have had the experience. Capitalism has no lure for them, as socialism does for their West Central European counterparts.",
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          "ref": "1993, Ullica Segerstråle, Bringing the Scientist Back In, in the anthology Controversial science: from content to contention (Thomas Brante, Steve Fuller, William Lynch, editors)",
          "text": "There is an authoritarian ring to many of the new approaches to the sociology of scientific knowledge, a Besserwisser attitude, whereby the sociologist knows best and does not need to consult with the object of his or her study."
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          "ref": "1995, Gordon A. Craig, “Konrad Adenauer and the United States”, in Reiner Pommerin, editor, The American Impact on Postwar Germany, Berghahn Books, →ISBN, page 7:",
          "text": "[…] that Adenauer was always a Besserwisser who was convinced that other people, even when they were heads of government in other countries, did not understand their own interests as well as he did […]",
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          "ref": "2006, Arvi Hurskainen, Lotta Harjula, Maaria Ylänkö, Africa in the long run: festschrift in the honour of Professor Arvi Hurskainen:",
          "text": "The proverb functions as a warning to a ‘Besserwisser’, because at the end a ‘know-it-all’ will drive away even his or her best friends.",
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        "A know-it-all, wiseguy, wiseacre, smart aleck."
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