Smatter vs Stutter - What's the difference?

In lang=en terms the difference between smatter and stutter

is that smatter is to speak (a language) with spotty or superficial knowledge while stutter is to exhaust a gas with difficulty.

is that smatter is to talk superficially; to babble while stutter is (ambitransitive) to speak with a spasmodic repetition of vocal sounds.

is that smatter is superficial knowledge; a smattering while stutter is a speech disorder characterised by stuttering.

(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.

* smatterer * smattering

(en noun)

superficial knowledge; a smattering

(wikipedia stutter)

(en verb)

(ambitransitive) To speak with a spasmodic repetition of vocal sounds.

He stuttered a few words of thanks.

To exhaust a gas with difficulty

The engine of the old car stuttered''' going up the slope. I was '''stuttering after the marathon .

* (speak with spasmodic repetition) stammer

(en noun)

A speech disorder characterised by stuttering.

(obsolete) One who stutters; a stammerer.

(Francis Bacon)

* stammer

* covert stutter * pseudostuttering * stutterer English reporting verbs