patter

patter
I
v
1. tiptoe, walk lightly; scurry, scuttle, trip along, skip, hie.
2. tap, pitter-patter, drum, pound, beat; thrum, palpitate, pulsate.
3. spatter, sprinkle, splash, plash; fleck, dapple, stipple.
n
4. pitter-patter, tapping, rat-a-tat, drumming, thrum, tattoo, pounding, pulsation.
II
n
1. spiel, pitch, Sl. flackery, harangue, address, glib talk; scat talk, scat singing.
2. chatter, gabble, Sl. yak, Sl. yakety-yak, jabber, prattle, gibber, babble, blab, blabbing; small talk, idle talk, jaw, Sl. chinfest, Inf. gab, Inf. gabfest, chitchat, chitter-chatter, buzzing, gossip, Scot. clishmaclaver; palaver, Sl. hot air, Sl. gas, Sl. bull; nonsense, gibberish, hogwash, poppycock; rambling, maundering, Sl. running off at the mouth; chattering, gabbing, jabbering, babbling, prattling, prating, twaddling.
3. jargon, cant, argot, vernacular; lingo, patois, idiom, slang, dialect; language, diction.
v
4. spiel, hold forth, spout forth, spout, harangue, Sl. yak, Sl. yak at, Sl. give a lot of flak; chatter, jabber, prattle, cackle, gibber, Sl. jibber-jabber; babble, babble like a brook, prate, tattle, twaddle, Brit. twattle, gabble, blather, drivel; splutter, sputter, chitter-chatter, chitchat, chaffer; bandy words about, Sl. shoot the breeze, Sl. shoot the bull, Sl. chew the rag, Sl. shmooze, pass the time of day, Inf. gab; gossip, buzz, Sl. gas, whisper; palaver, clack, clatter, rattle; run off at the mouth, Sl. have diarrhea of the mouth; gush, blab, carry on, talk nonstop, let the words roll out, be carried away by the sound of one's voice

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