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smatter

Pronunciation: /ˈsmætə/

The English word “smatter” has 9 meanings listed here.

verb

  1. To make (someone or something) dirty; to bespatter, to soil.
  2. To hit (someone or something) with a liquid; to splash, to spatter.
  3. To approach or study (something, such as a subject) superficially; to dabble in.
  4. To speak (a language or words) with only a superficial knowledge of it.
  5. To hit with a liquid; to splash, to spatter.
  6. To have a slight, superficial knowledge of something; to dabble.
  7. To talk ignorantly or superficially; to babble, to chatter.

noun

  1. A shallow or superficial knowledge of a subject.
  2. A small amount or number of something.

Etymology

The verb is derived from Middle English smateren, smatteren, smater, smatere (“to make dirty, defile; to talk idly, chatter; to speak foolishly”); further etymology uncertain, compare the following: * Middle English smotten (“to corrupt, debase, defile”) (whence English smot (obsolete)), related to Late Middle High German smotzen, a variant of smutzen (whence modern German schmutzen (“to become…

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