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smatter

 : 
Noun, Verb (transitive), Verb (intransitive)
 : 
smat=ter

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Verb smatter has 3 senses

CIDE DICTIONARY

smatterv. i. [OE. smateren to make a noise; cf. Sw. smattra to clatter, to crackle, G. schmettern to dash, crash, to warble, quaver.].
  •  To talk superficially or ignorantly; to babble; to chatter.  [1913 Webster]
    "Of state affairs you can not smatter."  [1913 Webster]
  •  To have a slight taste, or a slight, superficial knowledge, of anything; to smack.  [1913 Webster]
smatterv. t. 
  •  To talk superficially about.  [1913 Webster]
  •  To gain a slight taste of; to acquire a slight, superficial knowledge of; to smack.  Chaucer.  [1913 Webster]
smattern. 
     Superficial knowledge; a smattering.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

smatter, n. (also smattering) a slight superficial knowledge of a language or subject.

Derivative
smatterer n.
Etymology
ME smatter talk ignorantly, prate: orig. unkn.

THESAURUS

smatter

babble, burst, cackle, chat, chatter, clack, few, fragment, gab, gas, handful, jaw, pash, prate, prattle, rive, scattering, shiver, smash, smattering, spatter, spattering, splinter, sprinkling
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