sciolist

Etymology
From, diminutive of , from. It first appears in English at the beginning of the 17th century.

Noun

 * 1) One who exhibits only superficial knowledge; a self-proclaimed expert with little real understanding.
 * 2) * Alfred Marshall (1885) The Present Position of Economics: Among the bad results of the narrowness of the work of English economists early in the century perhaps the most unfortunate was the opportunity which it gave to sciolists to quote and misapply economic dogmas.
 * 1) * Alfred Marshall (1885) The Present Position of Economics: Among the bad results of the narrowness of the work of English economists early in the century perhaps the most unfortunate was the opportunity which it gave to sciolists to quote and misapply economic dogmas.

Translations

 * Czech: polovzdělanec,
 * Ukrainian: псевдовче́ний