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pitter-patter Meaning, Definition, Pronunciation, Grammar & Synonyms❤️

0 a series of quick, light knocking sounds:
- I heard the pitter-patter of tiny feet (= the noise of children running).
1 to make a series of quick, light knocking sounds:
- The rain pitter-pattered on the roof.
- For a few moments, my heart pitter-pattered in my chest.
2 with a series of quick, light knocking sounds:
- Ah, the thought of love makes the heart go pitter-patter.
- The 26-year-old musician definitely knows how to make hearts go pitter-patter.

My bare feet pitter-pattered across the wooden floor.
When I see mountains my heart pitter-patters, they promise adventure.
Evening rain pitter-patters off the metal roof.
When you walked in, my heart went pitter-patter.
We drank tea while watching the raindrops fall pitter-patter.
Don't grow up expecting to make fellows' hearts go pitter-patter !
A phrase is then passed in echo around the choirs before being subsumed in a huge cluster chord, which then dissolves in spoken pitter-patter.
The maggots, starved for oxygen, writhe and jump in the bag, creating a pitter-patter sound.