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A superficial or shallow knowledge of a subject.

Example: She knows a smattering of Greek, but not enough to carry on a conversation.

A small number or amount of something.

Example: There’s only a smattering of people who oppose the first amendment.

To talk superficially; to babble, chatter.

To speak (a language) with spotty or superficial knowledge.

To study or approach superficially; to dabble in.

To have a slight taste, or a slight, superficial knowledge, of anything; to smack.