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pitapat
[ pit-uh-pat ]
adverb
- with a quick succession of beats or taps:
Her heart beat pitapat with excitement.
noun
- the movement or the sound of something going pitapat:
the pitapat of hail on a roof.
verb (used without object)
, pit·a·pat·ted, pit·a·pat·ting.
- to go pitapat.
pitapat
/ ˌpɪtəˈpæt /
adverb
- with quick light taps or beats
verb
- intr to make quick light taps or beats
noun
- such taps or beats
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Word History and Origins
Origin of pitapat1
First recorded in 1515–25; imitative gradational compound
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Example Sentences
And Stempenju dissolves on his violin and melts like wax; pitapat is all you may hear.
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Scolding and pushing Pitapat out before her, she closed the door with a bang.
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"Three times and out," he whispered as the boys' hearts went pitapat.
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She walks the deck; and tick, tick, pitapat, go the four little paws after her.
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Somebody marched pitapat about the room, and somebody danced by the fireplace.
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