smatter

IPA: smˈætɝ

(intransitive) To talk superficially; to babble, chatter.
(transitive) To speak (a language) with spotty or superficial knowledge.
(transitive, figuratively) To study or approach superficially; to dabble in.
To have a slight taste, or a slight, superficial knowledge, of anything; to smack.

Examples of "smatter" in Sentences

a superficial "smatter" of knowledge concerning many.
Several smatter also crowd the bridge keeping an eye out.
Occasionally he would do a rewrite in reported speech to present a smatter of variety.
I just smatter on as much as I want and then stoke the fire up to near heatstroke levels.
This should serve as a preview for the ridiculousness that Republicans are going to smatter us with this election season.
Shopkeepers board up their windows, plastic bags tumble across the road, a few warning drops smatter the ground foreshadowing the deluge sure to follow.
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.
She knew how to do things and make things and even her good looks were competent, a straightforward sort of ableness, open and clear-eyed, with a smatter of fading freckles and a dirty-minded smile.