Definition of "smatter" []

• To speak (a language) without fluency: smatters Russian. (verb-transitive)
• To study or approach superficially; dabble in. (verb-transitive)
• To prattle: smattered on about her vacation. (verb-intransitive)
• A smattering. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "a superficial "smatter" of knowledge concerning many."
• "Beware magazine images showing squishy, sofa-style furniture – those piles of cushions have to be lugged indoors whenever there's a smatter of rain, then stored somewhere."
• "Shopkeepers board up their windows, plastic bags tumble across the road, a few warning drops smatter the ground foreshadowing the deluge sure to follow."