单词 | smatter |
释义 | smattern. 1. Superficial knowledge; a smattering. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > superficial knowledge > [noun] > instance of smatteringa1538 smatch1571 smackering1579 delibation1619 spatteringa1662 smatter1668 1668 Bp. J. Wilkins Ess. Real Char. 205 Unskilfulness, bungling,..slubber, smatter. 1690 W. Temple Ess. Anc. & Mod. Learning in Wks. (1720) I. 297 Other Sciences..were in a manner extinguish'd.., excepting only a Smatter of Judicial Astrology. 1787 W. Taylor Scots Poems 6 An' than jog on wi' rhymin smatter To toom my noddle. 1881 Thompson Proc. U.S. Superintendents' Conv. 35 The mistake lies in the substitution of smatter for knowledge. 1883 C. F. Adams College Fetich 27 That worthless smatter of the classics. 2. plural. Scraps, trifles, fragments; small sums. Scottish. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > smallness of quantity, amount, or degree > [noun] > a small quantity or amount > a trifling amount dribbling1661 trifle1722 dab1729 dribc1730 smatters1766 penny number1845 diddly1964 1766 A. Nicol Poems Several Subj. 76 He can pray, and tell long scrifts of Greek, And broken smatters of the Hebrew speak. 1808 in J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online March 2022). smatterv. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirty [verb (transitive)] uncleanseOE horyc1200 befoulc1320 behorewe1340 file1340 flobber1377 smatterc1386 foulc1400 slurryc1440 filtha1450 sowla1450 sollc1480 bawdy1495 squagea1500 arrayc1525 ray1526 bawdc1529 beray1530 filthify1545 belime1555 soss1557 embroyn1566 dirt1570 filthy1581 turpifya1586 dirty1591 muck1618 bedirt1622 bedirty1623 smooch1631 dight1632 fewma1637 snuddle1661 bepaw1684 puddle1698 nasty1707 muddify1739 scavenger1806 mucky1828 squalidize1837 mullock1861 muddy1893 c1386 G. Chaucer Parson's Tale ⁋857 Yet wol they Kisse..and smatre [v.r. smater] hem. c1450 in K. Sisam 14th Cent. Verse & Prose (1933) 169 Swarte smekyd smeþes smateryd wyth smoke. 1575–6 in J. Raine Depositions Courts Durham (1845) 278 They of St. Margaret's wolde not smatter ther own church yard with thoise that then died in the plage. 1602 W. Watson Decacordon Ten Quodlibeticall Questions 110 To say the Iesuits are all smattred with Atheisme, I will not. 1602 W. Watson Decacordon Ten Quodlibeticall Questions 245 More odious stuffe then I haue handled, or am willing to smatter my pen withall. b. U.S. To splash, splatter. Also intransitive. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > soiled condition > become soiled [verb (intransitive)] > splash or splatter smatter1893 1893 Notes & Queries 15 July 45 In the daily reports of the interesting Lizzie Borden murder trial, recently held in Massachusetts, I notice the peculiar use of the words smatter, smattering, and smattered in reference to splashes of blood. 1958 S. A. Grau Hard Blue Sky iii. 125 The first heavy drops fell and smattered in the dust. 1974 D. Richards Coming of Winter v. 144 The man had on a long grey coat, smattered with mud. a. intransitive. To talk ignorantly or superficially, to prate or chatter, of something. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > loquacity or talkativeness > be talkative [verb (intransitive)] > talk excessively or chatter chavel?c1225 babblea1250 chattera1250 clacka1250 janglea1300 ganglec1300 clapc1315 mumblec1350 blabberc1375 carp1377 tatterc1380 garre1382 rattlec1400 clatter1401 chimec1405 gabc1405 pattera1450 smattera1450 languetc1450 pratec1460 chat1483 jabber1499 clittera1529 cackle1530 prattle1532 blatter1533 blab1535 to run on pattens1546 tattle1547 prittle-prattlea1555 trattlea1555 tittle-tattle1556 quiddlea1566 brabble1570 clicket1570 twattle1573 gabble1574 prittle1583 to like to hear oneself speak, talk1597 to word it1612 deblaterate1623 tongue1624 twitter1630 snatter1647 oversay1656 whiffle1706 to gallop away1711 splutter1728 gob1770 gibble-gabble1775 palaver1781 to talk (etc.) nineteen to the dozen1785 gammon1789 witter1808 yabble1808 yaff1808 mag1810 chelp1820 tongue-pad1825 yatter1825 potter1826 chipper1829 jaw-jaw1831 buzz1832 to shoot off one's mouth1864 yawp1872 blate1878 chin1884 yap1888 spiel1894 to talk (also lie, swear, etc.) a blue streak1895 to run off at the mouth1908 chattermag1909 clatfart1913 to talk a streak1915 to run one's mouth1916 natter1942 ear-bash1944 rabbit1950 yack1950 yacker1961 to eat parrot head (also bottom)1965 yacket1969 to twat on1996 the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > empty, idle talk > talk idly [verb (intransitive)] chattera1250 drivelc1390 clatter1401 chatc1440 smattera1450 pratec1460 blaver1461 babble?1504 blether1524 boblec1530 trattlea1555 tittle-tattle1556 fable1579 tinkle1638 whiffle1706 slaver1730 doitera1790 jaunder1808 haver1816 maunder1816 blather1825 yatter1825 blat1846 bibble-babble1888 flap-doodle1893 twiddle1893 spiel1894 rot1896 blither1903 to run off at the mouth1908 drool1923 twiddle-twaddle1925 crap1940 natter1942 yack1950 yacker1961 yacket1969 a1450 (c1410) H. Lovelich Merlin (1904) I. l. 3167 Where-offen with sorwe smateryth he Of ony thing that to vs longeth forto be? a1529 J. Skelton Why come ye nat to Courte (?1545) 711 For I abhore to smatter Of one so deuyllysshe a matter. But I wyll make further relacion. a1566 R. Edwards Damon & Pithias (1571) sig. Civv Damon smatters as well as he of craftie Phylosophie. 1733 J. Swift On Poetry 6 Of State-Affairs you cannot smatter, Are awkward when you try to flatter. ΚΠ c1475 in T. Wright Songs & Carols (Percy Soc.) 89 Trow ye that they lyst to smatter, Ore ageynst ther husbondes to clatter? 1523 J. Skelton Goodly Garlande of Laurell 1194 How Cownterfet Cowntenaunce..With Crafty Conueyaunce dothe smater and flater. 1597 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet iii. v. 171 Good prudence smatter with your gossips, goe. View more context for this quotation a1661 B. Holyday tr. Juvenal Satyres (1673) 263 Such rules..your nurses teach children, when they can scarce smatter. 1691 E. Taylor J. Behmen's Theosophick Philos. 204 No Tongue or Pen can more than smatter, at the recital of the love-inspired Words. 3. a. To have a slight or superficial knowledge or practice of; to dabble, to be a smatterer (in or at something). ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > superficial knowledge > have slight knowledge [verb (intransitive)] smatter1530 to have a smack of, at, or in1551 superficialize1656 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 722/2 I smatter of a thyng, I have lytell knowledge in it. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 722/2 He smattereth a lytell of the lawe. 1547 A. Borde Breuiary of Helthe i. Prol. f. ii Fooles and incipient persons..wyll enterpryce to smatter & to medle to ministe medecynes. ?1573 L. Lloyd Pilgrimage of Princes f. 138 If a man can but smatter in sixe or seuen languages, he is noted to bee a rare felowe. 1805 G. McIndoe Poems & Songs 151 That's no' to hinder me to smatter..At making rhyme. 1827 T. Hood Craniol. 39 Just as in making broth they smatter By bobbing twenty things in water. 1882 Harper's Mag. Sept. 595 I never knew you to smatter. b. To go through in a superficial manner. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > carelessness > be careless or heedless of [verb (transitive)] > perform without accuracy or thoroughness to toy with ——1563 skima1586 slubber1592 slobber1630 huddle1648 to shuffle over, through1656 slobber1765 slattern1781 scuffle1785 slur1857 perfunctorize1866 smatter1881 1881 Mahaffy Rep. Irish Schools 26 The system makes it far more lucrative to smatter through all these things than to learn the great subjects. 4. transitive. To talk or utter without proper knowledge or proficiency. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > superficial knowledge > utter with little knowledge [verb (transitive)] smatter1616 the mind > language > speech > speak, say, or utter [verb (transitive)] > without proper knowledge twattle1577 twittle1577 tattle1593 smatter1616 bleat1692 blate1878 1616 B. Jonson Epicœne iv. vii, in Wks. I. 586 The Barber smatters latin, I remember. View more context for this quotation 1663 S. Butler Hudibras: First Pt. i. i. 14 In proper terms, such as men smatter When they throw out & miss the matter. 1708 Brit. Apollo 1–6 Oct. So harsh and so mean are the Lines that you smatter. 1819 Metropolis (ed. 2) II. 253 A man..who could at least smatter a little French. 1860 W. M. Thackeray Lovel i He smattered words in not a few foreign languages. 5. To dabble in (a subject); to study or learn superficially. ΘΚΠ society > education > learning > study > [verb (transitive)] > study superficially skima1586 scum1625 to dip into1682 smatter1883 1883 American XXVI. 281 Then I smatter botany some. 1885 R. L. Stevenson & F. Stevenson Dynamiter in Wks. (1907) VI. 191 I have smattered law, smattered letters, smattered geography, smattered mathematics. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1668v.c1386 |
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