smatterer
- a word derived from smatter.
Example Sentences
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Walpole described 'Mr. Fenn of East Dereham in Norfolk' as 'a smatterer in antiquity, but a very good sort of man.'
From George Borrow and His Circle Wherein May Be Found Many Hitherto Unpublished Letters Of Borrow And His Friends by Shorter, Clement King
Coke commented upon them sentence by sentence, and even now the merest smatterer in English law must profess some knowledge of Quia emptores and De donis conditionalibus.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" by Various
Oh the chatterer, oh the flatterer, Oh the smatterer in science, To whom all things clear should be!
From Zigzag Journeys in Northern Lands; The Rhine to the Arctic; A Summer Trip of the Zigzag Club Through Holland, Germany, Denmark, Norway, and Sweden by Butterworth, Hezekiah
Don't spare study; if you will be a lawyer, become a good one, not a smatterer.
From Lewis Rand by Johnston, Mary
Now Chilperic must have learned to speak Latin like other kings of the Franks, and was a smatterer in several kinds of literature.
From View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, Vol. 3 by Hallam, Henry
