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Smatter v. t.

To talk superficially about.

To gain a slight taste of; to acquire a slight, superficial knowledge of; to smack.

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Etymology of 'Smatter'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Smatter" Quotes from Famous Books

... of the forest had gathered again: Mr. Lyken was there in black gloves; the Reverend Laomi Smatter had arrived in a sleigh from Ghost Lake. Both were ...

— The Flaming Jewel • Robert Chambers

... reform cranks always exaggerate." That was the beginning and quite completely the end of his investigations into Zenith's charities and corrections; and as to the "vice districts" he brightly expressed it, "Those are things that no decent man monkeys with. Besides, smatter fact, I'll tell you confidentially: it's a protection to our daughters and to decent women to have a district where tough nuts can raise cain. Keeps 'em away from ...

— Babbitt • Sinclair Lewis

... even the smattering of a dead language is better than no extra language at all, and that's why, at such cost of time and labor and paternal cash, we learn to smatter Greek and Latin, I suppose. "Arma virumque cano"—"Tityre tu patulae?"—"Maecenas atavis"—"[Greek: Menin aeide]"—and there you are! It sticks in the memory, and it's as ...

— The Martian • George Du Maurier

... now," replied the Commissioner. "We already have, Matter, Batter, Tatter, Smatter Patter, Ratter, ...

— Alice in Blunderland - An Iridescent Dream • John Kendrick Bangs

Words linked to "Smatter" : blabber, busy, piffle, palaver, babble, occupy, clack, tattle, chatter, gabble, gibber, twaddle, maunder, dabble, blather, talk, prattle, smattering, prate, blither