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Smatter

verb

Work with in an amateurish manner. Synonyms: dabble, play around. "He plays around with investments but he never makes any money"

To talk foolishly. Synonyms: babble, blather, blether, blither.

Speak with spotty or superficial knowledge.

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"Smatter" Quotes from Famous Books

... always plenty to do, if you'll only do it. I've been cultivating some virtuosities, among other things. Remind me to show you my etchings when we go in. Did you notice, perhaps, that little head over the table, on the north wall? No? Then I smatter botany some. I'll let you look over my hortus siccus before you go. It has some very rare ferns; one of them is a new species, and Fungus—who exchanges with me—swore that he was going to have it ...

— Stories by American Authors, Volume 8 • Various

... monograph—summary of conclusions—salvage from the wreck. But it won't do. It was an edifice to be built up on data, bit by bit, like an atoll. . . . Ever seen a coral reef, by the way? We'll inspect one—many perhaps—on our travels. . . . I'd burn in the pit rather than smatter out popular guess-work. Yes, all personal pride apart, I couldn't do it. But however badly I set down conclusions, they've all rested on data, they've all grown up on data, and I haven't the data. . . . I wrote out half a dozen ...

— Foe-Farrell • Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

Words linked to "Smatter" : dabble, smattering, clack, prattle, blab, babble, gabble, gibber, palaver, tittle-tattle, blather, prate, tattle, play around, maunder, chatter, twaddle, talk, blabber, speak, busy, occupy, piffle