smatch1 (smach)

[ II. trans. To have a taste of; smack of. Neuerthele e ye haue yet two or three other figures that smatch a spice of the same false semblant, but in another sort and maner of phrase. Putten ham , Arte of Eng. Poesie, p. 159. smatch1 (smach), n. [ smatch1 , v .] Taste; tincture; also, a smattering; a small part. noise), croak, Dan. smaske, snaske, gnash or smack with the lips in eating: see smack2, smash.] I. in trans. 1t. To make a noise. Songs and Carols (ed. Wright), No. lxxii. ( Stratmann.) -2. To talk superficially or ignorantly. For I abhore to smatter Of one so deuyllyshe a matter! Skelton , Why Come ye nat to Courte? 1. 711. 3. To have a slight or superficial knowledge. I smatter of a thyng, I have lytell knowledge in it. Palsgrave, p. 722. II. trans. 1. To talk ignorantly or superficially about; use in conversation or quote in a superficial manner. The barber smatters Latin, I remember. IMG:content-1351.png:[blocks in formation] Shak., Macbeth, ii. 2. 49. For, though to smatter ends of Greek Or Latin be the rhetor i que Of pedants counted, and vain-glorious, To smatter French is meritorious. IMG:content-1352.png:[blocks in formation]