smatter

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

SMAT'TER, verb intransitive [It contains the elements of mutter.] 1. To talk superficially or ignorantly. Of state affairs you cannot smatter 2. To have a slight taste, or a slight superficial knowledge. SMAT'TER, noun Slight superficial knowledge.
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