smatterer

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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

If the question were, What is the best mode of securing good government in Europe? the merest smatterer in politics would answer, representative institutions.

From Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 4 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron

Don't spare study; if you will be a lawyer, become a good one, not a smatterer.

From Lewis Rand by Johnston, Mary

Now Chilperic must have learned to speak Latin like other kings of the Franks, and was a smatterer in several kinds of literature.

From View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, Vol. 3 by Hallam, Henry

Walpole described “Mr. Fenn of East Dereham in Norfolk” as “a smatterer in antiquity, but a very good sort of man.”

From The Life of George Borrow by Shorter, Clement K.