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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

... (as I believe) less Than others do, on errands sleeveless; Can listen to a tale humdrum, And with attention read Tom Thumb; My spirits with my body progging, Both hand in hand together jogging; Sunk over head and ears in matter. Nor can of metaphysics smatter; Am more diverted with a quibble Than dream of words intelligible; And think all notions too abstracted Are like the ravings of a crackt head; What intercourse of minds can be Betwixt the knight sublime and me, If when I talk, as talk I must, It is but prating to a bust? Where friendship ...

— Poems (Volume II.) • Jonathan Swift

... at his setting out he was: So, in the circle of the arts, Did he advance his nat'ral parts: Till falling back still, for retreat, He fell to juggle, cant, and cheat: For as those fowls that live in water Are never wet, he did but smatter: Whate'er he labour'd to appear, His understanding still was clear, Yet none a deeper knowledge boasted, Since old ...

— William Lilly's History of His Life and Times - From the Year 1602 to 1681 • William Lilly

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