Smattering

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Smattering \Smat"ter*ing\, n.
     A slight, superficial knowledge of something; sciolism.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           I had a great desire, not able to attain to a
           superficial skill in any, to have some smattering in


           all.                                     --Burton.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  smattering
       n 1: a small number or amount; "only a handful of responses were
            received" [syn: {handful}]
       2: a slight or superficial understanding of a subject

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  72 Moby Thesaurus words for "smattering":
     a little learning, amateurism, cast, coquetry, dabbling, dalliance,
     dallying, dash, dilettantism, dilettantship, few, fiddling,
     flirtation, fooling, fooling around, gleam, glimmering, glimpse,
     half-learning, handful, hint, idea, idling, imperfect knowledge,
     intimation, jerking off, kidding around, lick, loitering, look,
     messing around, monkeying, monkeying around, piddling, playing,
     playing around, pottering, puttering, scattering, scintilla,
     sciolism, semi-learning, shade, shadow, shallowness, sip,
     slight knowledge, smack, smatter, smattering of ignorance,
     smattering of knowledge, smell, soupcon, spark, spatter,
     spattering, sprinkling, suggestion, sup, superficiality,
     surface-scratching, suspicion, taste, thought, tincture, tinge,
     tinkering, touch, toying, trace, trifling, vague notion