smatterer

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noun

One who smatters; one who dabbles in or experiments with a little bit of everything, especially knowledge.

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Meanings

nounsmatterer (plural smatterers)

plural smatterers

  1. One who smatters; one who dabbles in or experiments with a little bit of everything, especially knowledge.

    It’s easy enough to be a beak when you’re young and athletic, and can offer the latest University smattering. The difficulty is to keep your place when you get old and stiff, and younger smatterers are pushing up behind you.

    1907, E.M. Forster, The Longest Journey, Part II, XX [Uniform ed., p. 201]

Origin

From smatter + -er.

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APA

smatterer. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/smatterer

MLA

“smatterer.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/smatterer. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “smatterer,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/smatterer.

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