单词 | pattering |
释义 | patteringn.1 Incessant or repetitive talking; continuous chatter, esp. with little regard to sense or content; the persuasive speech of a street-seller. Also: an instance of this. ΚΠ ?1533 W. Tyndale Expos. Mathew vi. f. lxxxviijv How blynde are they which thynke prayer to be the paterynge of manye wordes. 1570 B. Googe tr. T. Kirchmeyer Popish Kingdome iii. 40 [They] tire their tongues with mumbling vaine, and endlesse pattering. 1665 R. Brathwait Comment Two Tales Chaucer 16 What a pattering with their Lips, as if they would cry out! 1850 W. R. Williams Relig. Progress (1854) i. 22 Leaving the nursery and its pattering by rote of elementary truths. 1983 J. H. Wiener Radicalism & Free Thought in 19th-cent. Brit. i. 11 He was exposed to the patterings of the tractsellers who advertised their political wares in and around Fleet Street. 2001 Western Mail (Cardiff) (Nexis) 1 Dec. (Letters section) 12 I am..fed up with [the] petty pattering of that empty ‘siop siarrad’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). patteringn.2 The action of patter v.2; a light tapping sound, as made by raindrops, rapid footfalls, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > repeated sound or succession of sounds > [noun] > pattering or spattering pit-a-pat1582 pit-a-pat-ationa1735 squatter1788 pattering1798 patter1822 splatter1827 pit-a-patting1844 pat1846 pitter-patter1863 spattering1866 the world > people > person > baby or infant > [noun] > presence or expectation of the patter of tiny (also little) feeta1849 pattering1849 1798 T. Jones Memoirs (1951) 54 Lulled to sleep by the pattering of the rain against the windows. 1801 R. Southey Thalaba I. i. 58 The pattering of the shower. 1849 H. W. Longfellow Kavanagh xi. 40 With these day~dreams mingled confusedly the pattering of little feet. 1891 T. Hardy Tess of the D'Urbervilles III. xlvi. 112 A pattering of hoofs on the soil of the field. 1918 D. M. Wright N.Z. Fairy Song 39 There came a pattering of feet like August showers. 1966 J. Sloman Virgil's Machines 25 I was in your living room waiting for you to get ready, listening to some music and the pattering of your dog's feet. 2003 Birmingham Post (Nexis) 2 May 18 It's..a family affair, featuring the flighty vocals of Sutapa Bhattacharya and speedy tabla patterings from Subashis Bhattacharya. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). patteringadj.1 rare. That patters or speaks rapidly or as if by rote. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > loquacity or talkativeness > [adjective] wordyeOE talewisec1200 i-worded?c1225 babblinga1250 cacklinga1250 chatteringa1250 speakfula1250 word-wooda1250 of many wordsc1350 janglingc1374 tatteringc1380 tongueya1382 ganglinga1398 readya1400 jargaunt1412 talkative1432 open-moutheda1470 clattering1477 trattling?a1513 windy1513 popping1528 smatteringa1529 rattle?1529 communicablea1533 blab1552 gaggling1553 long-tongued?1553 prittle-prattle1556 pattering1558 talking1560 bobling1566 gabbling1566 verbal1572 piet1573 twattling1573 flibber gibber1575 babblative1576 tickle-tongued1577 tattling1581 buzzing1587 long-winded1589 multiloquous1591 discoursive1599 rattling1600 glib1602 flippant1605 talkful1605 nimble-tongued1608 tongue-ripe1610 fliperous1611 garrulous?1611 futile1612 overspeaking1612 feather-tongueda1618 tongue-free1617 long-breatheda1628 well-breathed1635 multiloquious1640 untongue-tied1640 unretentive1650 communicative1651 linguacious1651 glibbed1654 largiloquent1656 multiloquent1656 parlagea1657 loose-clacked1661 nimble-chop1662 twit-twat1665 over-talkativea1667 loquacious1667 loudmouth1668 conversable1673 gash1681 narrative1681 chappy1693 apposite1701 conversative1703 gabbit1710 lubricous1715 gabby?1719 ventose1721 taleful1726 chatty?1741 blethering1759 renable1781 fetch-fire1784 conversational1799 conversant1803 gashing1808 long-lunged1815 talky1815 multi-loquacious1819 prolegomenous1822 talky-talky1831 nimble-mouthed1836 slipper1842 speechful1842 gassy1843 in great force1849 yattering1859 babbly1860 irreticent1864 chattable1867 lubrical1867 chattery1869 loose-mouthed1872 chinny1883 tongue-wagging1885 yappy1909 big-mouthed1914 loose-lipped1919 ear-bashing1945 ear-bending1946 yackety-yacking1953 nattering1959 yacking1959 woofy1960 1558 T. Phaer tr. Virgil Seuen First Bks. Eneidos vi. sig. P.iij Whan furst her [sc. the Sibyl's] pattring mouth and raging limmes wer left at rest, Eneas prinse began. 1835 R. M. Bird Infidel II. vi. 67 Wert thou, instead of a pattering friar, a canonized saint in heaven, still wert thou but a thing of dross and earth, compared with him thou malignest! 1958 C. Oman David Garrick iii. 64 ‘You must not take that,’ said Welsh Davy in his quick pattering speech. 1994 Observer (Nexis) 30 Jan. (Review Page section) 17 The pattering voices of children stumbling sleepily over their evening prayers. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). patteringadj.2 That patters or makes a repeated light tapping sound. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > repeated sound or succession of sounds > [adjective] > pattering or spattering spattering1576 tattling1576 pittering1594 pit-a-pata1637 pattering1697 pit-a-patting1844 the world > people > person > baby or infant > [adjective] > presence or expectation of pattering1886 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis ix, in tr. Virgil Wks. 491 Patt'ring Hail comes pouring on the Main. a1770 T. Chatterton Compl. Wks. (1971) I. 439 With patt'ring blows prolongs th'unequal fight. 1792 F. Burney Jrnls. & Lett. (1972) I. 229 In the midst of pattering Showers & Cloudy skies. 1807 J. B. White Myst. of Castle ii. iii. 27 It is callous now, hard and cold as the surrounding rocks, repelling the balmy word of comfort, as they the pattering rain. 1886 J. Ruskin Præterita I. ix. 288 Cliffs, with a pretty pattering stream at the bottom. 1924 Chambers's Jrnl. 294/2 Pattering donkeys barge their way through the crowded alleys. 1989 O. V. Vijayan After the Hanging 142 I heard the fried ringlets crackle, I heard the pattering footfall of truant children. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1?1533n.21798adj.11558adj.21697 |
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