Smatter vs Trifle - What's the difference?
smatter | trifle |
To talk superficially; to babble.
* Jonathan Swift
To speak (a language) with spotty or superficial knowledge.
(figuratively) To study or approach superficially; to dabble in.
To have a slight taste, or a slight, superficial knowledge, of anything; to smack.
An English dessert made from a mixture of thick custard, fruit, sponge cake, jelly and whipped cream.
An insignificant amount.
* {{quote-book, year=1928, author=Lawrence R. Bourne
, title=Well Tackled!
, chapter=17 Anything that is of little importance or worth.
* Shakespeare
* Drayton
A particular kind of pewter.
(uncountable) Utensils made from this particular kind of pewter.
To deal with something as if it were of little importance or worth.
To act, speak, or otherwise behave with jest.
To inconsequentially toy with something.
To squander or waste.
In intransitive terms the difference between smatter and trifle
is that smatter is to talk superficially; to babble while trifle is to inconsequentially toy with something.In transitive terms the difference between smatter and trifle
is that smatter is to speak (a language) with spotty or superficial knowledge while trifle is to squander or waste.smatter
English
Verb
(en verb)- Of state affairs you cannot smatter .
- to smatter Arabic
Derived terms
* smatterer * smatteringAnagrams
*trifle
English
Noun
citation, passage=Commander Birch was a trifle uneasy when he found there was more than a popple on the sea; it was, in fact, distinctly choppy. Strictly speaking, he ought to have been following up the picket–boat, but he was satisfied that the circumstances were sufficiently urgent for him to take risks.}}
- Trifles light as air / Are to the jealous confirmation strong / As proofs of holy writ.
- with such poor trifles playing
