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Smatter   /smˈætər/   Listen
Smatter

verb
1.
Work with in an amateurish manner.  Synonyms: dabble, play around.  "He plays around with investments but he never makes any money"
2.
To talk foolishly.  Synonyms: babble, blather, blether, blither.
3.
Speak with spotty or superficial knowledge.



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"Smatter" Quotes from Famous Books



... soon be introduced at the infant schools among the other eccentric evolutions or playful whirls of Mr. Wilder-spin. At it is the fashion to comprehend nothing, but to have a smattering of everything, we beg leave to smatter our readers with a very thin layer of political economy. In the first place, "political" means "political," and "economy" signifies "economy," at least when taken separately; but put them together, and ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 1, October 30, 1841 • Various
... "'Smatter? Cheer up, kids, you ain't seen nothing yet. That was just a couple of little preliminary love-taps, like two boxers kinda feeling each other out in the first ten seconds of ...
— Skylark Three • Edward Elmer Smith
... "Sara! 'Smatter, Sara? 'Smat-ter?" Hattie's tired hand crept toward her friend; but her volition would not carry it across and it fell inert across ...
— The Best Short Stories of 1915 - And the Yearbook of the American Short Story • Various


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