smatter[verb]Synonyms: shatter, burst, fragment, pash, rive, shiver, smash, splinter, splinterize, splitter, chat, babble, cackle, chatter, clack, gab, gas, jaw, prate, prattle
[noun]Synonyms: few, handful, scattering, smatch, smattering, spatter, spattering, sprinkling
[TahlilGaran] English Synonym Dictionary ▲
smatter verb.
['smatǝ] ME.[Origin unkn.]1. verb trans.a. Make dirty; pollute.
ME-E17.b. Splash, splatter.
US.
L19.■ D. Richards A long grey coat, smattered with mud.2. verb intrans. Talk foolishly or superficially; chatter. (Foll. by
of.) Now
Scot. LME.■ C. Lamb A..chemist..who smatters of literature and is immeasurably unlettered.3. verb intrans. & refl. Have slight or superficial knowledge of a subject; dabble. (Foll. by
of, in, at.)
L15.■ J. P. Mahaffy More lucrative to smatter through..these things than to learn the great subjects.4. verb trans.a. Speak (a language) without proper knowledge or proficiency.
E17.■ T. E. Lawrence A science fatally easy..to smatter, but too difficult..to master.b. Dabble in (a subject); study superficially.
rare.
L19. ■ smatterer noun a person who smatters;
spec. a person who has only superficial knowledge of a matter, a dabbler (
in):
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