Smăt'ter1, v. i.
v. i. [Ger. schmettern, to dash, crash, to warble, quaver; Sw. smattra, to crackle, from the root of smite.] 1. To talk superficially or ignorantly. Of state affairs you can not smatter. Swift. 2. To have a slight taste, or a slight, superficial knowledge; to smack.