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- verb Present participle of
pitter .
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Examples
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They plumped into the milk-cans, and they went pittering and pattering all over the floor, backwards and forwards, and up and down.
Little Eyolf 2008
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They plumped into the milk-cans, and they went pittering and pattering all over the floor, backwards and forwards, and up and down.
Little Eyolf 2008
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Trip said, “Mikey is yowling as if he were still hearing squirrels chasing each other through the walls and pittering around in the attic.”
The Last Chance Dog D.V.M. Donna Kelleher 2003
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Trip said, “Mikey is yowling as if he were still hearing squirrels chasing each other through the walls and pittering around in the attic.”
The Last Chance Dog D.V.M. Donna Kelleher 2003
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Though when a soft pittering as of velvet feet arose behind him he refused to acknowledge that it might be what he feared, yet the instincts of his trade told him that it is not well when any noise whatever follows a diamond by night, and this was one of the largest that had ever come to him in the way of business.
The Book of Wonder Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett Dunsany 1917
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Emperor's men, for I heard on the other side of the ivory hills the pittering of those beasts that prey on the mad, as they prowled up and down.
A Dreamer's Tales Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett Dunsany 1917
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They plumped into the milk-cans, and they went pittering and pattering all over the floor, backwards and forwards, and up and down.
Little Eyolf Henrik Ibsen 1867
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