Word Meanings - SMATTER - Book Publishers vocabulary database
to clatter, to crackle, G. schmettern to dash, crash, to warble, 1. To talk superficially or ignorantly; to babble; to chatter. Of state affairs you can not smatter. Swift. 2. To have a slight taste, or a slight, superficial knowledge, of anything;
Additional info about word: SMATTER
to clatter, to crackle, G. schmettern to dash, crash, to warble, 1. To talk superficially or ignorantly; to babble; to chatter. Of state affairs you can not smatter. Swift. 2. To have a slight taste, or a slight, superficial knowledge, of anything; to smack.
Related words: (words related to SMATTER)
- STATESMANLIKE
Having the manner or wisdom of statesmen; becoming a statesman. - SLIGHTNESS
The quality or state of being slight; slenderness; feebleness; superficiality; also, formerly, negligence; indifference; disregard. - STATEHOOD
The condition of being a State; as, a territory seeking Statehood. - CLATTERINGLY
With clattering. - SLIGHTEN
To slight. B. Jonson. - SLIGHTINGLY
In a slighting manner. - BABBLEMENT
Babble. Hawthorne. - STATE SOCIALISM
A form of socialism, esp. advocated in Germany, which, while retaining the right of private property and the institution of the family and other features of the present form of the state, would intervene by various measures intended to - CRACKLE
To make slight cracks; to make small, sharp, sudden noises, rapidly or frequently repeated; to crepitate; as, burning thorns crackle. The unknown ice that crackles underneath them. Dryden. - CRACKLED
Covered with minute cracks in the glaze; -- said of some kinds of porcelain and fine earthenware. - SWIFTNESS
The quality or state of being swift; speed; quickness; celerity; velocity; rapidity; as, the swiftness of a bird; the swiftness of a stream; swiftness of descent in a falling body; swiftness of thought, etc. - SWIFTLET
Any one of numerous species of small East Indian and Asiatic swifts of the genus Collocalia. Some of the species are noted for furnishing the edible bird's nest. See Illust. under Edible. - ANYTHINGARIAN
One who holds to no particular creed or dogma. - SWIFTER
A rope used to retain the bars of the capstan in their sockets while men are turning it. A rope used to encircle a boat longitudinally, to strengthen and defend her sides. The forward shroud of a lower mast. - STATECRAFT
The art of conducting state affairs; state management; statesmanship. - STATESWOMAN
A woman concerned in public affairs. A rare stateswoman; I admire her bearing. B. Jonson. - BABBLER
A name given to any one of family of thrushlike birds, having a chattering note. (more info) 1. An idle talker; an irrational prater; a teller of secrets. Great babblers, or talkers, are not fit for trust. L'Estrange. 2. A hound too noisy on - STATESMANLY
Becoming a statesman. - STATESMAN
1. A man versed in public affairs and in the principles and art of government; especially, one eminent for political abilities. The minds of some of our statesmen, like the pupil of the human eye, contract themselves the more, the stronger light - CHATTERATION
The act or habit of chattering. - CREBRICOSTATE
Marked with closely set ribs or ridges. - PREKNOWLEDGE
Prior knowledge. - SAGEBRUSH STATE
Nevada; -- a nickname. - OLD LINE STATE
Maryland; a nickname, alluding to the fact that its northern boundary in Mason and Dixon's line. - ENSTATE
See INSTATE - KATASTATE
A substance formed by a katabolic process; -- opposed to anastate. See Katabolic. - BAYOU STATE
Mississippi; -- a nickname, from its numerous bayous. - REESTATE
To reëstablish. Walis. - BLACKWATER STATE
Nebraska; -- a nickname alluding to the dark color of the water of its rivers, due to the presence of a black vegetable mold in the soil. - ARISTATE
Having a pointed, beardlike process, as the glumes of wheat; awned. Gray. - BICOSTATE
Having two principal ribs running longitudinally, as a leaf. - TRIPLICOSTATE
Three-ribbed. - DEHONESTATE
To disparage. (more info) dishonor; de- + honestare to make honorable. Cf. Dishonest, and see - DEVASTATE
To lay waste; to ravage; to desolate. Whole countries . . . were devastated. Macaulay. Syn. -- To waste; ravage; desolate; destroy; demolish; plunder; pillage.