Pealing vs Patter - What's the difference?
pealing | patter |
The sound made by bells as they peal.
* Arthur Conan Doyle
The soft sound of feet walking on a hard surface.
*{{quote-book, year=1907, author=
, title=The Dust of Conflict
, chapter=7 To make irregularly repeated sounds of low-to-moderate magnitude and lower-than-average pitch.
* Thomson
To spatter; to sprinkle.
* J. R. Drake
To speak in such a way – glibly and rapidly, such as from an auctioneer, or when bantering during a sports event.
* Mayhew
As nouns the difference between pealing and patter
is that pealing is the sound made by bells as they peal while patter is godfather.As a verb pealing
is .pealing
English
Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)- Then when the words were said, and man's form had tried to sanctify that which was already divine, we walked amid the pealings of the “Wedding March” into the vestry
Anagrams
*patter
English
Etymology 1
1610s, of (onomatopoeia) origin.Noun
(en noun)- I could hear the patter of mice running about in the dark.
citation, passage=The patter of feet, and clatter of strap and swivel, seemed to swell into a bewildering din, but they were almost upon the fielato offices, where the carretera entered the town, before a rifle flashed.}}
Derived terms
* pitter-patterVerb
(en verb)- The bullets pattered into the log-cabin walls.
- The stealing shower is scarce to patter heard.
- Patter the water about the boat.
Etymology 2
Circa 1400, from . Noun attested 1758, originally referring to the cant of thieves and beggers.Verb
(en verb)- I've gone out and pattered to get money.