Meaning

To make (someone or something) dirty; to bespatter, to soil..

Definitions by Sense

1. To make (someone or something) dirty; to bespatter, to soil.
2. To hit (someone or something) with a liquid; to splash, to spatter.
3. To approach or study (something, such as a subject) superficially; to dabble in.
4. To speak (a language or words) with only a superficial knowledge of it.
5. To hit with a liquid; to splash, to spatter.
6. To have a slight, superficial knowledge of something; to dabble.
7. To talk ignorantly or superficially; to babble, to chatter.
8. Synonym of smattering.

Example Sentences

To ſay the Ieſuites are all ſmattred vvith Atheiſme, I vvill not: and to ſay, that any of them all are abſolutely ſcotfree from it, I cannot: it is ſo repugnant from their ovvne principles.

[I]f euer you ſee father Parſons booke of intended Reformation, you vvill finde roome ynough to put in more odious ſtuffe then I haue handled, or am vvilling to ſmatter my pen vvithall.

I have smattered law, smattered letters, smattered geography, smattered mathematics; I have even a working knowledge of judicial astrology; and here I stand, all London roaring by at the street's end, as impotent as any baby.

The Barber ſmatters latin, I remember.

All this, vvithout a Gloſs or Comment, / He vvould unriddle in a moment / In proper terms, ſuch as men ſmatter / VVhen they throvv out and miſs the matter.

Smatter'ſt thou Greek ſtill? This tongue does ill grace / An old Trot, […]

He smattered words in not a few foreign languages.

The languages of Polynesia are easy to smatter, though hard to speak with elegance.

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When Should You Use Smatter?

Use smatter when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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