pedante
Meanings
Noun
1. pedant (person overly concerned with formal rules and trivial points of learning)
Examples3
El alcalde es un pedante y un fantoche.
The mayor is a know-it-all and a loudmouth.
Es lo que se dice un pedante.
He is what is called a pedant.
Es lo que se llama un pedante.
He is what is called a pedant.