Dictionary Entry
patter
patter is a 6-letter English word with 12 senses as intransitive verb, transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To strike with a quick succession of slight, sharp sounds; as, pattering rain or hail; pattering feet. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 9 · 12 senses
Definitions
- 1intransitive verb
To strike with a quick succession of slight, sharp sounds; as, pattering rain or hail; pattering feet.
- 2intransitive verb
To mutter; to mumble; as, to patter with the lips.
- 3intransitive verb
To talk glibly; to chatter; to harangue.
- 4transitive verb
To spatter; to sprinkle.
- 5intransitive verb
To mutter; as prayers.
- 6noun
A quick succession of slight sounds; as, the patter of rain; the patter of little feet.
- 7noun
Glib and rapid speech; a voluble harangue.
- 8noun
The cant of a class; patois; as, thieves's patter; gypsies' patter.
- 9noun
plausible glib talk (especially useful to a salesperson)
Synonyms
- 10noun
a quick succession of light rapid sounds
"the patter of mice"
"the patter of tiny feet"
- 11verb
make light, rapid and repeated sounds
"gently pattering rain"
- 12verb
rain gently
"It has only sprinkled, but the roads are slick"
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