"pitter" meaning in English

See pitter in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: pitters [plural]
Etymology: pit + -er Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|pit|er}} pit + -er Head templates: {{en-noun}} pitter (plural pitters)
  1. A device that removes pits from fruit such as olives or cherries. Derived forms: cherry pitter, olive pitter Translations (Device): dénoyauteur [masculine] (French), Entsteiner (German), descarozador (Spanish), urkärnare [common-gender] (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-pitter-en-noun-ZgCF0bQJ Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -er Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 88 12
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Verb

Forms: pitters [present, singular, third-person], pittering [participle, present], pittered [participle, past], pittered [past]
Etymology: See pitter-patter. Head templates: {{en-verb}} pitter (third-person singular simple present pitters, present participle pittering, simple past and past participle pittered)
  1. To make a pattering sound.
    Sense id: en-pitter-en-verb-q~8zvicg
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for pitter meaning in English (1.9kB)

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