"Oliver Elphick" <olly@lfix.co.uk> writes: > Michael Meskes wrote: > >On Mon, Jan 11, 1999 at 04:28:33PM +0100, Fredrik Juhlin wrote: > >> Do I get to be the first to jump on this too obvious opportunity to play > >> besserwisser? :) > > > >Is 'besserwisser' normaly used in English that way? > > It hasn't made it into British English at all. What does it mean? My german-english dictionary translate it as "know-all", in a quite negative meaning. Torsten