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  • noun Scotland A small, nasty or insignificant person.

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  • "So thou comest from Armstrong of Kinmont, boy; and had Kinmont Willie no better messenger at hand, that he had to fall back on a smatchet like thee?"

    Tales From Scottish Ballads Elizabeth Wilson Grierson 1908

  • John Stewart, being re-examined and confronted with the child, was easily compelled to allow that the "little smatchet" was there, and to give that marvellous account of his correspondence with Elfland which we have noticed elsewhere.

    Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft 1885

  • John Stewart, being re-examined and confronted with the child, was easily compelled to allow that the "little smatchet" was there, and to give that marvellous account of his correspondence with Elfland which we have noticed elsewhere.

    Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft Walter Scott 1801

  • You'd break your fecking wrist swinging on of them smatchet around!!!

    Army Rumour Service 2010

  • You'd break your fecking wrist swinging on of them smatchet around!!!

    Army Rumour Service 2010

  • "Fifty years gone, Robin -- when she was but a smatchet [a very young person] -- I said that lass would do well.

    Clare Avery A Story of the Spanish Armada Emily Sarah Holt 1864

  • The smatchet is far from being a wristbreaker (unless you're talking about the other guy;))

    Army Rumour Service 2010

  • The smatchet is far from being a wristbreaker (unless you're talking about the other guy;))

    Army Rumour Service 2010

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  • a small, nasty person.

    January 2, 2008

  • "I couldn't be sure if the employee at the IRS answer desk was a smatchet or merely a gerbil, but the answer given was less than useless." A smatchet is a person pesky with self-importance yet so diametrically opposed to "cool" there is not even a quirk of personality worthy of sticking sarcasm upon. A person who strives - yet fails - to reach the goal of even being annoying.

    April 13, 2009