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Definition: Smatter |
SmatterVerb1. Work with in a non-serious manner; "She dabbles in astronomy"; "He plays around with investments bu he never makes any money". 2. To talk foolishly; "The two women babbled and crooned at the baby". 3. Speak with spotty or superficial knowledge: "She smatters Russian". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "smatter" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1595. (references) |
Synonyms: SmatterSynonyms: babble (v), blather (v), blether (v), blither (v), dabble (v), play around (v). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Smatter |
| Non-English Usage: "Smatter" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Swedish (blare, clatter, pit-a-pat, pitter patter). |
| Language | Translations for "smatter"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | معرفة قليلة (smattering), معرفة سطحية (smattering), تكلم من غير إتقان, عدد قليل, ثرثر (babble, blab, blabber, bluster, chatter, clack, clatter, crack, gabble, gas, gibber, give oneself airs, gossip, jabber, jangle, jaw, natter, palaver, patter, prate, prattle, quack, rap, rumble, shoot one's mouth off, talk, tattle, twaddle, twitter, yap). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | говоря повърхностно, малко количество (bit, dab, dash, dollop, dreg, dribblet, drop, jot, modicum, nibble, pennyworth, relish, scantling, soupcon, sprinkling, thimbleful, tot, trickle), имам повърхностни познания по. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | papoter, bavarder. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | oberflächlich reden (to smatter). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | י"יע" שטחית (smattering). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | tudását fitogtatja (to smatter), rosszul beszél angolul (to smatter in English, to speak bad english), konyít vmit az angolhoz (to smatter in english), konyít vmihez (to smatter), felszínesen ismer vmit (to smatter), felszínesen cseveg (to smatter), felszínesen beszél (to smatter), felületesen foglalkozik vmivel (to dabble at sg, to dabble in sg, to smatter), felületesen beszél (to smatter), csekély ismeretét fitogtatja (to smatter). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | attersmay falar superficialmente. (various references) avea cunoştinţe superficiale de. (various references) saber por encima. (various references) พู" าษาไม่ไ"้มาก, ศึกษาผิวเผิน. (various references) знати поверхово, бути дилетантом. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "smatter": smattered, smatterer, smatterers, smattering, smatterings, smatters. (additional references) | |
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"Smatter" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cmwater, samatter, shmatte, smater, smattery, smutter, snutter, statter. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "smatter" (pronounced sma"ter) |
| 4 | -m a" t er | matter. |
| 3 | -a" t er | attar, batter, Blatter, chatter, clatter, fatter, flatter, hatter, latter, natter, patter, platter, scatter, shatter, spatter, splatter, Tatar, tatter. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: matters. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-m-r-s-t-t" | |
-1 letter: armets, master, maters, matres, matter, mattes, ramets, stater, stream, tamers, tamest, taster, taters, tetras, treats. | |
-2 letters: armet, aster, mares, marse, marts, maser, mater, mates, matte, matts, meats, ramet, rates, reams, satem, smart, smear, stare, start, state, steam, tamer, tames, tares, tarts, taste, tater, tates, teams, tears, teats, terms, testa, tetra, trams, treat. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-m-r-s-t-t" | |
+1 letter: maltster, martlets, mattress, maturest, mistreat, smartest, smatters, teamster, teratism. | |
+2 letters: admitters, aftermost, amarettos, amorettos, attempers, estimator, maltreats, maltsters, martinets, maturates, metatarsi, mistreats, remittals, smattered, smatterer, stateroom, stratagem, streamlet, tautomers, teamsters, teratisms, teratomas, tetramers, transmute. | |
+3 letters: aftermaths, aftertimes, altimeters, apartments, arrestment, assortment, astrometry, atmometers, dermatitis, estimators, formatters, impetrates, intimaters, magistrate, majorettes, martensite, masturbate, mattrasses, mattresses, maturities, meditators, meltwaters, menstruate, metatarsal, metatarsus, microstate, micturates, misstarted, mistreated, monetarist, octameters, outsmarted, postmaster, ratemeters, reattempts, reestimate, retransmit, rotameters, smatterers, smattering, staterooms, sterigmata, stratagems, streamiest, streamlets, streetlamp, taskmaster, tastemaker, taximeters, termagants, terminates, thermostat, transmuted, transmutes, traumatise, treatments, trematodes, wattmeters. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 6D 61 74 74 65 72 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... -- .- - - . .-. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01101101 01100001 01110100 01110100 01100101 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S m a t t e r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 006D 0061 0074 0074 0065 0072 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)53796786867184 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Derivations 6. Rhymes 7. Anagrams 8. Orthography | 9. Bibliography |
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