smatter

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈsmætə/
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• Canada, General-American: /ˈsmætəɹ/
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• Canada, General-American: [-ɾəɹ]
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• Australian: /ˈsmætə/
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• Australian: [-ɾə]
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• New-Zealand: /ˈsmɛtə/
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• New-Zealand: [-ɾə]
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• rhymes with -ætə(ɹ)
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• CMU ARPABET: S M AE1 T ER0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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The verb is derived from Middle English smateren, smatteren, smater, smatere (“to make dirty, defile; to talk idly, chatter; to speak foolishly”); further etymology uncertain, compare the following: * Middle English smotten (“to corrupt, debase, defile”) (whence English smot (obsolete)), related to Late Middle High German smotzen, a variant of smutzen (whence modern German schmutzen (“to become dirty or soiled; to make dirty, soil”)), from smuz (“dirt”). * Danish smadre (“to smash”), German schmettern (“to smash; to resound”) (from Middle High German smetern (“to chatter; to rattle; (dialectal) to make a smacking sound”)); Norwegian Bokmål smadre (“to smash”), Swedish smattra (“to make short, sharp, quickly repeating noises, patter, rattle”), possibly originally onomatopoeic. However, the Oxford English Dictionary says “real connection is very doubtful”. The noun is derived from the verb.

22 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Czech: fušovat — (transitive) to approach or study (something) superficially; (intransitive) to have a slight, superficial knowledge of something — see also dabble
• Czech: zabývat se amatérsky — (transitive) to approach or study (something) superficially; (intransitive) to have a slight, superficial knowledge of something — see also dabble
• Finnish: harrastella — (transitive) to approach or study (something) superficially; (intransitive) to have a slight, superficial knowledge of something — see also dabble
• Finnish: puuhastella — (transitive) to approach or study (something) superficially; (intransitive) to have a slight, superficial knowledge of something — see also dabble
• German: dilettieren — (transitive) to approach or study (something) superficially; (intransitive) to have a slight, superficial knowledge of something — see also dabble
• German: versuchen (an etwas) — (transitive) to approach or study (something) superficially; (intransitive) to have a slight, superficial knowledge of something — see also dabble
• Arabic: لَحَنَ (laḥana) — (transitive) to speak (a language or words) with only a superficial knowledge of it
• Bulgarian: говоря повърхностно (govorja povǎrhnostno) — (transitive) to speak (a language or words) with only a superficial knowledge of it
• Catalan: xampurrejar — (transitive) to speak (a language or words) with only a superficial knowledge of it
• Finnish: mongertaa — (transitive) to speak (a language or words) with only a superficial knowledge of it
• French: baragouiner — (transitive) to speak (a language or words) with only a superficial knowledge of it
• Galician: chapurrear — (transitive) to speak (a language or words) with only a superficial knowledge of it
• Galician: cortar — (transitive) to speak (a language or words) with only a superficial knowledge of it
• German: radebrechen — (transitive) to speak (a language or words) with only a superficial knowledge of it
• German: gebrochen sprechen — (transitive) to speak (a language or words) with only a superficial knowledge of it
• Italian: masticare — (transitive) to speak (a language or words) with only a superficial knowledge of it
• Portuguese: arranhar — (transitive) to speak (a language or words) with only a superficial knowledge of it
• Russian: кове́ркать (kovérkatʹ) — (transitive) to speak (a language or words) with only a superficial knowledge of it
• Serbo-Croatian: ло̀мити — (transitive) to speak (a language or words) with only a superficial knowledge of it
• Serbo-Croatian: lòmiti — (transitive) to speak (a language or words) with only a superficial knowledge of it
• Spanish: chapurrar — (transitive) to speak (a language or words) with only a superficial knowledge of it
• Spanish: chapurrear — (transitive) to speak (a language or words) with only a superficial knowledge of it