pat·ter /ˈpætɚ/
 急速拍打聲,輕快腳步聲,行話,快板,饒舌(vi.)急速地說,滴答地響


 Pat·ter v. i. [imp. & p. p. Pattered p. pr. & vb. n. Pattering.]
 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.
 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.”
 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.
 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.]

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 patter
      n 1: plausible glib talk (especially useful to a salesperson)
           [syn: spiel, line of gab]
      2: a quick succession of light rapid sounds; "the patter of
         mice"; "the patter of tiny feet"
      v 1: rain gently; "It has only sprinkled, but the roads are
           slick" [syn: sprinkle, spit, spatter, pitter-patter]
      2: make light, rapid and repeated sounds; "gently pattering
         rain" [syn: pitter-patter]