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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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
Dictionary Results for smattering:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
smattering
    n 1: a small number or amount; "only a handful of responses were
         received" [syn: handful, smattering]
    2: a slight or superficial understanding of a subject
2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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]
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