smatter
verb (used with object)
to speak (a language, words, etc.) with superficial knowledge or understanding.
smatterer
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a word derived from
smatter.
Example Sentences
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In history he was the merest smatterer, though it was his favorite reading, and he was always talking about Sparta, Athens, and Rome.
From Famous Americans of Recent Times by James Parton
Don't spare study; if you will be a lawyer, become a good one, not a smatterer.
From Lewis Rand by Mary Johnston
If the question were, What is the best mode of securing good government in Europe? the merest smatterer in politics would answer, representative institutions.
From Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 4 by Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay
They sent everybody to school, and, though their educations were principally those of smatterers, it is an advantage to be even a smatterer among the very ignorant.
From The Chainbearer Or, The Littlepage Manuscripts by James Fenimore Cooper
He was a smatterer of that most dangerous kind, who feel certain they have arrived at truth.
From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 2, February, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various
