'Patter' definitions:
Definition of 'patter'
(from WordNet)
noun
Plausible glib talk (especially useful to a salesperson) [syn: spiel, patter, line of gab]
noun
A quick succession of light rapid sounds; "the patter of mice"; "the patter of tiny feet"
verb
Rain gently; "It has only sprinkled, but the roads are slick" [syn: sprinkle, spit, spatter, patter, pitter-patter]
verb
Make light, rapid and repeated sounds; "gently pattering rain" [syn: patter, pitter-patter]
Definition of 'Patter'
From: GCIDE
- Patter \Pat"ter\, n.
- 1. A quick succession of slight sounds; as, the patter of rain; the patter of little feet. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Glib and rapid speech; a voluble harangue. [1913 Webster]
- 3. The cant of a class; patois; as, thieves's patter; gypsies' patter. [1913 Webster]
- 4. 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.] [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Definition of 'Patter'
From: GCIDE
- Patter \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. [1913 Webster]
- The stealing shower is scarce to patter heard. --Thomson. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To mutter; to mumble; as, to patter with the lips. --Tyndale. [In this sense, and in the following, perh. from paternoster.] [1913 Webster]
- 3. To talk glibly; to chatter; to harangue. [Colloq.] [1913 Webster]
- I've gone out and pattered to get money. --Mayhew. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Patter'
From: GCIDE
- Patter \Pat"ter\, v. t.
- 1. To spatter; to sprinkle. [R.] "And patter the water about the boat." --J. R. Drake. [1913 Webster]
- 2. [See Patter, v. i., 2.] To mutter; as prayers. [1913 Webster]
- [The hooded clouds] patter their doleful prayers. --Longfellow. [1913 Webster]
- To patter flash, to talk in thieves' cant. [Slang] [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'patter'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- act,
- act as foil,
- acting,
- appear,
- argot,
- babble,
- babbling,
- ballyhoo,
- bang,
- barnstorm,
- barrage,
- baste,
- batter,
- beat,
- beat a ruffle,
- beat a tattoo,
- beating,
- blab,
- blabber,
- blather,
- blether,
- blood rain,
- buffet,
- buffoonery,
- bump,
- business,
- cackle,
- cant,
- chaffer,
- characterization,
- chat,
- chatter,
- chink,
- clack,
- clatter,
- click,
- clink,
- clop,
- clump,
- clunk,
- colloquialize,
- come out,
- converse,
- crump,
- declaim,
- dither,
- drizzle,
- drub,
- drum,
- drum music,
- drumbeat,
- drumfire,
- drumming,
- dull thud,
- emote,
- emotionalize,
- evening mist,
- fall,
- flail,
- flap,
- flick,
- flump,
- flurry,
- flutter,
- gab,
- gabble,
- gabbling,
- gag,
- gas,
- get top billing,
- gibber,
- gibberish,
- gibble-gabble,
- go on,
- go pitapat,
- gobbledygook,
- gossip,
- gout of rain,
- gush,
- ham,
- hammer,
- hammy acting,
- haver,
- hoke,
- hokum,
- hot air,
- impersonation,
- jabber,
- jabbering,
- jargon,
- jargonize,
- jaw,
- knock,
- lambaste,
- larrup,
- line,
- lingo,
- maul,
- mime,
- mimesis,
- mimicking,
- mimicry,
- miming,
- mist,
- misty rain,
- mizzle,
- moisture,
- mouth,
- mumbo jumbo,
- mummery,
- natter,
- overacting,
- pad,
- palaver,
- palpitate,
- palpitation,
- pantomime,
- pantomiming,
- paradiddle,
- paste,
- pat,
- patois,
- pelt,
- perform,
- performance,
- performing,
- personation,
- phraseology,
- pitapat,
- pitch,
- pitter-patter,
- play,
- play the lead,
- playact,
- playacting,
- playing,
- plump,
- plunk,
- pommel,
- pop,
- portrayal,
- pound,
- pounding,
- pour,
- pour forth,
- pour with rain,
- prate,
- prattle,
- precipitate,
- precipitation,
- projection,
- pulsate,
- pulsation,
- pulverize,
- pummel,
- rain,
- rain tadpoles,
- raindrop,
- rainfall,
- rainwater,
- ramble on,
- rap,
- rat-a-tat,
- rat-tat,
- rat-tat-tat,
- rataplan,
- rattattoo,
- rattle,
- rattle on,
- reel off,
- register,
- representation,
- roll,
- rub-a-dub,
- ruff,
- ruffle,
- run on,
- sales pitch,
- sales talk,
- scatology,
- Scotch mist,
- scurry,
- scuttle,
- sheet of rain,
- shower,
- shower down,
- sketch,
- skip,
- slang,
- slapstick,
- sledgehammer,
- small talk,
- sound a tattoo,
- spank,
- spatter,
- spattering,
- speak,
- spiel,
- spit,
- splatter,
- splutter,
- spout,
- spout off,
- sprinkle,
- sputter,
- staccato,
- stage business,
- stage directions,
- stage presence,
- star,
- steal the show,
- stooge,
- stream,
- stunt,
- taboo language,
- taking a role,
- talk,
- talk away,
- talk nonsense,
- talk on,
- tap,
- tat-tat,
- tattoo,
- thrash,
- thresh,
- throb,
- throbbing,
- thrum,
- thud,
- thump,
- thumping,
- tick,
- tinkle,
- tiptoe,
- tittle-tattle,
- tom-tom,
- tread the boards,
- trip,
- troupe,
- tunk,
- twaddle,
- twattle,
- unfrozen hydrometeor,
- upstage,
- use language,
- vernacular,
- vocabulary,
- vulgar language,
- waffle,
- wag the tongue,
- wallop,
- weep,
- wet,
- whip,
- yak,
- yakkety-yak