pit-a-pat
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pit-a-pat
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interjection pit a pat · pitapat · pit-pat · pitpat · pitter-pat · pitterpat
- Representing a series of quick tapping sounds. Pit-a-pat, pit-a-pat, the bullets kept falling and stirring up little puffs of dust on the open ground in front of the zeriba.
verb pit-a-pats · pit-a-patting · pit-a-patted · pit a pat · pitapat
- To make a series of quick tapping sounds; to palpitate
noun pit-a-pats · pit a pat · pitapat · pit-pat · pitpat · pitter-pat
- A series of quick tapping sounds
adverb pit a pat · pitapat · pit-pat · pitpat · pitter-pat · pitterpat
- With a quick tapping sound “Only a scraping of shoes on the mat? / “Anything like the sound of a rat / “Makes my heart go pit-a-pat!”
adjective pit a pat · pitapat · pit-pat · pitpat · pitter-pat · pitterpat
- Characterized by quick tapping sounds; palpitating. The chesnut ringlets were speedily twitched from the confining paper, her Sunday hat, gown, and neckerchief bustled on in a moment, and wondering what he would say, and how she should feel and behave on the trying occasion, she descended with a pit-a-pat heart, and a cheek covered with burning blush
