PATTER

v. n.

8 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
v.

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.
v.

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

3.
v.

To talk glibly; to chatter; to harangue. [Colloq.] I've gone out and pattered to get money. Mayhew.

4.
v.

To spatter; to sprinkle. [R.] "And patter the water about the boat." J. R. Drake.

5.
v.

To mutter; as prayers. [The hooded clouds] patter their doleful prayers. Longfellow. To patter flash, to talk in thieves' cant. [Slang]

6.
n.

A quick succession of slight sounds; as, the patter of rain; the patter of little feet.

7.
n.

Glib and rapid speech; a voluble harangue.

8.
n.

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

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