smatterv.

Brit.

/ˈsmatə/, U.S.

/ˈsmædər/

Forms: Middle English smatre, Middle English–1500s smater, 1500s smatyr, Middle English– smatter.

Etymology: Of uncertain origin. Similar forms occur in Swedish smattra to patter, crackle, rattle, etc., German schmettern to dash, resound, etc., but real connection is very doubtful. In dialects there is also a verb smatter to smash: see the Eng. Dial. Dict.

†a. transitive. To dirty, smirch, pollute, defile. Obsolete.The sense in the Chaucer passage is not quite certain.

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.

†2.

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. Civ^v 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.

†b. Without const. Obsolete.

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.

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.

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.

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).

单词	smatter
释义	smattern. Brit. /ˈsmatə/, U.S. /ˈsmædər/ Etymology: < smatter v. 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. Brit. /ˈsmatə/, U.S. /ˈsmædər/ Forms: Middle English smatre, Middle English–1500s smater, 1500s smatyr, Middle English– smatter. Etymology: Of uncertain origin. Similar forms occur in Swedish smattra to patter, crackle, rattle, etc., German schmettern to dash, resound, etc., but real connection is very doubtful. In dialects there is also a verb smatter to smash: see the Eng. Dial. Dict. 1. †a. transitive. To dirty, smirch, pollute, defile. Obsolete.The sense in the Chaucer passage is not quite certain. 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. †2. 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. Civ^v 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. †b. Without const. Obsolete. 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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