smatter

Meanings

Verb

To talk superficially; to babble, chatter.
To speak (a language) with spotty or superficial knowledge.
To study or approach superficially; to dabble in.
To have a slight taste, or a slight, superficial knowledge, of anything; to smack.

Noun

A smattering .
A smattering .

Origin

From Middle English smatteren, smateren. Compare Swedish smattra, Danish and Norwegian smadre (all of which mean to patter), German schmettern.

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