Verb

• S: (v) dabble (dabble%2:41:01::), smatter (smatter%2:41:00::), play around (play_around%2:41:02::) (work with in an amateurish manner) "She dabbles in astronomy"; "He plays around with investments but he never makes any money"
• S: (v) babble (babble%2:32:00::), blather (blather%2:32:00::), smatter (smatter%2:32:01::), blether (blether%2:32:00::), blither (blither%2:32:00::) (to talk foolishly) "The two women babbled and crooned at the baby"
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• derivationally related form
• sentence frame
• S: (v) smatter (smatter%2:32:00::) (speak with spotty or superficial knowledge) "She smatters Russian"
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• S: (v) speak (speak%2:32:02::), talk (talk%2:32:03::) (use language) "the baby talks already"; "the prisoner won't speak"; "they speak a strange dialect"
• derivationally related form
• W: (n) smattering (smattering%1:09:00::) [Related to: smatter] (a slight or superficial understanding of a subject)
• sentence frame