Definitions for: Patter


[n] plausible glib talk (especially useful to a salesperson)
[n] a quick succession of light rapid sounds; "the patter of mice"; "the patter of tiny feet"
[v] make light, rapid and repeated sounds, as of rain
[v] rain gently; "It has only sprinkled, but the roads are slick"



Webster (1913) Definition: Pat"ter, n.
The language or oratory of a street peddler, conjurer, or the
like, hence, glib talk; a voluble harangue; mere talk;
chatter; also, specif., rapid speech, esp. as sometimes
introduced in songs. [Cant or Colloq.]


Pat"ter, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Pattered; p. pr. & vb.
n. Pattering.] [Freq. of pat to strike gently.]
1. To strike with a quick succession of slight, sharp sounds;
as, pattering rain or hail; pattering feet.

The stealing shower is scarce to patter heard.
--Thomson.

2. To mutter; to mumble; as, to patter with the lips.
--Tyndale. [In this sense, and in the following, perh.
from paternoster.]

3. To talk glibly; to chatter; to harangue. [Colloq.]

I've gone out and pattered to get money. --Mayhew.


Pat"ter, v. t.
1. To spatter; to sprinkle. [R.] ``And patter the water about
the boat.'' --J. R. Drake.

2. [See Patter, v. i., 2.] To mutter; as prayers.

[The hooded clouds] patter their doleful prayers.
--Longfellow.

To patter flash, to talk in thieves' cant. [Slang]


Pat"ter, n.
1. A quick succession of slight sounds; as, the patter of
rain; the patter of little feet.

2. Glib and rapid speech; a voluble harangue.

3. The cant of a class; patois; as, thieves's patter;
gypsies' patter.

Synonyms: line of gab, pitter-patter, pitter-patter, spatter, spiel, spit, sprinkle

See Also: go, line, rain, rain down, sound, sound

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