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pittle-pattle

pittle-pattle verb: to talk unmeaningly; to chatter or prattle.

Verb

pittle-pattle (third-person singular simple present pittle-pattles, present participle pittle-pattling, simple past and past participle pittle-pattled)

  1. (archaic, intransitive) To talk unmeaningly; to chatter or prattle.
    • The world and the devil hath so bewitched us, that we in our deeds, I fear me, too many of us, deny God to be God, whatsoever we pittle-pattle with our tongues.1549, Hugh Latimer, “The Second Sermon of Master Hugh Latimer, which He Preached before the King’s Majesty [Edward VI], within His Grace’s Palace at Westminster, the Fifteenth Day of March, 1549. To...

Forms of pittle-pattle

third-person singular presentpittle-pattles
present participlepittle-pattling
past participlepittle-pattled
pastpittle-pattled

Questions about pittle-pattle

What does pittle-pattle mean?
Pittle-pattle means to talk unmeaningly; to chatter or prattle.
What part of speech is pittle-pattle?
Pittle-pattle is a verb.
What is the past tense of pittle-pattle?
The past tense of pittle-pattle is pittle-pattled.

Words near pittle-pattle in the dictionary

  1. Pittington
  2. pittite
  3. pittites
  4. Pittland
  5. pittle
  6. pittle-pattle
  7. pittled
  8. pittles
  9. pittling
  10. Pittman
  11. Pittmans

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