Smatters vs Slatters - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between smatters and slatters

is that smatters is (smatter) while slatters is (slatter).

(head)

(smatter)

* *

(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

(head)

(slatter)

(en verb)

To be careless, negligent, or awkward, especially with regard to dress and neatness.

To be wasteful.

(Ray)

(Webster 1913)