Pittance vs Smattering - What's the difference?
pittance | smattering |
A small allowance of food and drink; a scanty meal.
A meagre allowance of money or wages.
* 1898 , , (Moonfleet) Chapter 5
A small amount.
A superficial or shallow knowledge of a subject.
A small number or amount of something.
As nouns the difference between pittance and smattering
is that pittance is a small allowance of food and drink; a scanty meal while smattering is a superficial or shallow knowledge of a subject.As a verb smattering is
.pittance
English
Noun
(en noun)- So I went to keep house with him at the Why Not? and my aunt sent down my bag of clothes, and would have made over to Elzevir the pittance that my father left for my keep, but he said it was not needful, and he would have none of it.
smattering
English
Noun
- She knows a smattering of Greek, but not enough to carry on a conversation.
- There’s only a smattering of people who oppose the second amendment.