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Definition of Smatters
1. smatter [v] - See also: smatter
Lexicographical Neighbors of Smatters
Literary usage of Smatters
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of English Etymology by Hensleigh Wedgwood, John Christopher Atkinson (1872)
"smatters, in the expression breaking to ¡matters, must be explained from G.
schmettern, to crash or crack, as a peal of thunder, and thence like ..."
2. A Dictionary of English Etymology by Hensleigh Wedgwood (1865)
"The word has a totally different meaning in the expression breaking to smatters,
where it must be explained from ... Det gik i smadder, it went to smatters. ..."
3. A History of the People of the United States: From the Revolution to the by John Bach McMaster (1896)
"To make smatters worse, an embargo was laid by Congress on December seventeenth,
and immediately every foreign food product rose to a fabulous price. ..."
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