smatterer

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To the philosophers at Athens he appears as the preacher of a new philosophy, and they think him a "smatterer" in such subjects.

From Life in the Roman World of Nero and St. Paul by Tucker, T. G. (Thomas George)

Like Mr. Stevenson's smatterer, who was asked, "What would be the result of putting a pound of potassium in a pot of porter?"

From Adventures in Criticism by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir

Coke commented upon them sentence by sentence, and even now the merest smatterer in English law must profess some knowledge of Quia emptores and De donis conditionalibus.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" by Various

Oh the chatterer, oh the flatterer, Oh the smatterer in science, To whom all things clear should be!

From Zigzag Journeys in Northern Lands; The Rhine to the Arctic; A Summer Trip of the Zigzag Club Through Holland, Germany, Denmark, Norway, and Sweden by Butterworth, Hezekiah

They sent everybody to school, and, though their educations were principally those of smatterers, it is an advantage to be even a smatterer among the very ignorant.

From The Chainbearer Or, The Littlepage Manuscripts by Cooper, James Fenimore