Definition of "smatterer" []

• One who smatters; one who dabbles in or experiments with a little bit of everything, especially knowledge. (noun)

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• "But the worst of it is that all efforts in this direction have generally ended in producing a "smatterer," whose theories are baffled by constant disappointment, and whose worldly prosperity is lessened by his mistaken experiments."
• "Nor was his the case of the mere literary smatterer, content if he but learn the names of things."
• "At this explanation she shook her head, and observed that no smatterer could read as I had done."