walking encyclopedia

A very knowledgeable person, as in Ask Rob-he's a walking encyclopedia of military history. A similar expression, a walking dictionary, was used by George Chapman in his poem "Tears of Peace" (c. 1600).

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Kaycee	KAY-see	English (Modern)
ĽUbomÍR	-	Slovak
Shel	SHEL	English
Zsuzsanna	ZHOO-zhawn-naw	Hungarian
Nada (2)	-	Serbian, Croatian, Slovene, Macedonian
Waite	[weit]