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Scatteringly vs Smatteringly - What's the difference?

scatteringly | smatteringly |

As adverbs the difference between scatteringly and smatteringly

is that scatteringly is in a scattering manner, suggesting scattering while smatteringly is in or by fragments; superficially.

scatteringly

English

Adverb

(en adverb)
  • in a scattering manner, suggesting scattering.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1908, author=Alice MacGowan, title=Judith of the Cumberlands, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=She pushed cautiously down to the edge of the rocks where the bushes grew scatteringly , pretending to herself that she wanted a bit of wild geranium that flourished in a crevice far below the top. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1895, author=Charles Egbert Craddock (AKA Mary Noailles Murfree), title=The Riddle Of The Rocks, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=The other men trooped along scatteringly , dodging under the low boughs of the stunted trees. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=, author=Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), title=The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg and Other Stories, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage='My father went straight to the hiding-place in full sight of everybody, and got out the fish-hooks and brought them and flung them scatteringly over my head, so that they fell in glittering confusion on the platform at my lover's knee. }}

    smatteringly

    English

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • In or by fragments; superficially.
  • * Tennyson
    • To learn a language known but smatteringly / In phrases here and there at random.