smatterings
plural of smattering
• mattressing, metastrings
Source: Wiktionary
Smat"ter*ing, n.
Definition: A slight, superficial knowledge of something; sciolism. I had a great desire, not able to attain to a superficial skill in any, to have some smattering in all. Burton.
Smat"ter, v. i. Etym: [OE. smateren to make a noise; cf. Sw. smattra to clatter, to crackle, G. schmettern to dash, crash, to warble, quaver.]
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.
Smat"ter, v. t.
1. To talk superficially about.
2. To gain a slight taste of; to acquire a slight, superficial knowledge of; to smack. Chaucer.
Smat"ter, n.
Definition: Superficial knowledge; a smattering.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
26 December 2024
(noun) personal as opposed to real property; any tangible movable property (furniture or domestic animals or a car etc)
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
