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Smatter

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Verb

1. dabble, play around, smatter

work with in an amateurish manner

Example Sentences:
'She dabbles in astronomy'
'He plays around with investments but he never makes any money'

2. babble, blather, blether, blither, smatter

to talk foolishly

Example Sentences:
'The two women babbled and crooned at the baby'

3. smatter

speak with spotty or superficial knowledge

Example Sentences:
'She smatters Russian'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Smatter

see synonyms of smatter
noun
1. 
a smattering
verb
2. (intransitive) rare
to prattle
3. (transitive) archaic
to dabble in

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Smatter

see synonyms of smatter
verb transitive Rare
1. 
to speak or utter (a language, words, etc.) with only slight knowledge
2. 
to study or learn (a subject) superficially
noun
3. 
smattering

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Smatter

see synonyms of smatter
v. smat·tered, smat·ter·ing, smat·ters
v.tr.
1. To speak (a language) without fluency: smatters Russian.
2. To study or approach superficially; dabble in.
v.intr.
To prattle: smattered on about her vacation.
n.
A smattering.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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