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Slatter vs Smatter - What's the difference?

slatter | smatter |

As nouns the difference between slatter and smatter

is that slatter is hay harvest, mowing (the act of harvesting hay; the ground or the time for harvesting hay) while smatter is superficial knowledge; a smattering.

As a verb smatter is

to talk superficially; to babble.

slatter

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To be careless, negligent, or awkward, especially with regard to dress and neatness.
  • To be wasteful.
  • (Ray)
    (Webster 1913)

    smatter

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To talk superficially; to babble.
  • * Jonathan Swift
  • Of state affairs you cannot smatter .
  • To speak (a language) with spotty or superficial knowledge.
  • to smatter Arabic
  • (figuratively) To study or approach superficially; to dabble in.
  • To have a slight taste, or a slight, superficial knowledge, of anything; to smack.
  • Derived terms

    * smatterer * smattering

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • superficial knowledge; a smattering
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