Pitter-patter

·add. ·noun A sound like that of alternating light beats. Also, a pattering of words.

II. Pitter-patter ·add. ·adv With, or with the sound of, alternating light beats; as, his heart went pitter-patter.

Pitter
·noun A contrivance for removing the pits from peaches, plums, and other stone fruit. II. Pitter ·v...

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Patter
·noun Glib and rapid speech; a voluble harangue. II. Patter ·vi To <<Mutter>>; as prayers. III. Pa...

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to patter
To talk. To patter flash; to speak flash, or the language used by thieves. How the blowen lushes jac...

Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
patter
v. to eat. Aboriginal word, and usedin pigeon – English, given by Collins in his vocabulary of theP...

Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
gamon and patter
Common place talk of any profession; as the gamon and patter of a horse-dealer, sailor, &c. ...

Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose