资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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.

            The stealing shower is scarce to patter heard.
                                                  --Thomson.

   2. To mutter; to mumble; as, to patter with the lips.
      --Tyndale. [In this sense, and in the following, perh.
      from paternoster.]

   3. To talk glibly; to chatter; to harangue. [Colloq.]

            I've gone out and pattered to get money. --Mayhew.