smatteringly

adv

smatteringly

adv

Etymology From smattering + -ly.

1

In or by fragments; superficially.

[W]e task ourselves / To learn a language known but smatteringly / In phrases here and there at random, [...]1864, Alfred Tennyson, “Aylmer’s Field”, in Enoch Arden, &c., London: Edward Moxon & Co., […], →OCLC, page 73:

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