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"text": "1819 (published in 1835) Joseph Rodman Drake, The Culprit Fay\nPatter the water about the boat."
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"ref": "1975, Garry Marshall et al., “Richie's Flip Side”, in Happy Days, season 2, episode 21, spoken by Richie Cunningham (Ron Howard)",
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"2": "paternoster",
"3": "",
"4": "the Lord's prayer"
},
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"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "la",
"3": "pater",
"4": "",
"5": "father"
},
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"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ine-pro",
"3": "*ph₂tḗr"
},
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"name": "der"
}
],
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{
"form": "patters",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "pattering",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "pattered",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "pattered",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
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"args": {},
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}
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"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
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{
"glosses": [
"To speak glibly and rapidly, as does an auctioneer or a sports commentator."
],
"links": [
[
"glibly",
"glibly"
],
[
"rapidly",
"rapidly"
],
[
"auctioneer",
"auctioneer"
],
[
"commentator",
"commentator"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English intransitive verbs",
"English terms with obsolete senses"
],
"glosses": [
"To repeat the Lord's Prayer."
],
"links": [
[
"Lord's Prayer",
"Lord's Prayer"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(intransitive, obsolete) To repeat the Lord's Prayer."
],
"tags": [
"intransitive",
"obsolete"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English intransitive verbs",
"English terms with obsolete senses"
],
"glosses": [
"To pray."
],
"links": [
[
"pray",
"pray"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(intransitive, obsolete) To pray."
],
"tags": [
"intransitive",
"obsolete"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with obsolete senses",
"English transitive verbs"
],
"glosses": [
"To repeat hurriedly; to mutter."
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive, obsolete) To repeat hurriedly; to mutter."
],
"tags": [
"obsolete",
"transitive"
]
}
],
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{
"ipa": "/ˈpæt.ə/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈpæt.ɚ/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-ætə(ɹ)"
},
{
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"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/a2/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-patter.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-patter.wav.mp3",
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"tags": [
"Southern-England"
],
"text": "Audio (Southern England)"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "dǎrdorja",
"sense": "to speak glibly and rapidly",
"word": "дърдоря"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to speak glibly and rapidly",
"word": "paukuttaa"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to speak glibly and rapidly",
"word": "plappern"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to speak glibly and rapidly",
"word": "pörög a nyelve"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "taratóritʹ",
"sense": "to speak glibly and rapidly",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "тарато́рить"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "govorítʹ skorogovórkoj",
"sense": "to speak glibly and rapidly",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "говори́ть скорогово́ркой"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "treščátʹ",
"sense": "to speak glibly and rapidly",
"tags": [
"colloquial",
"imperfective"
],
"word": "треща́ть"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to speak glibly and rapidly",
"word": "parlotear"
}
],
"word": "patter"
}
{
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"English 2-syllable words",
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English terms suffixed with -er",
"English terms with IPA pronunciation",
"English terms with audio links",
"Rhymes:English/ætə(ɹ)",
"Rhymes:English/ætə(ɹ)/2 syllables",
"en:Gaits",
"en:Sounds",
"en:Talking"
],
"etymology_number": 3,
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{
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"1": "en",
"2": "pat",
"3": "er",
"t2": "agent"
},
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"name": "suffix"
}
],
"etymology_text": "pat + -er (“agent”)",
"forms": [
{
"form": "patters",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
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{
"args": {},
"expansion": "patter (plural patters)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
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"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1981, Jackie Cooper, Richard Kleiner, Please Shoot Dog, page 50",
"text": "I used to hate head patters, and I have realized that all children dislike being patted on the head.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"One who pats."
],
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[
"pat",
"pat"
]
]
}
],
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{
"ipa": "/ˈpæt.ə/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈpæt.ɚ/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-ætə(ɹ)"
},
{
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"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/a2/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-patter.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-patter.wav.mp3",
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"tags": [
"Southern-England"
],
"text": "Audio (Southern England)"
}
],
"word": "patter"
}
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