Puttered vs Pattered - What's the difference?
puttered | pattered |
(putter)
(label) To be active, but not excessively busy, at a task or a series of tasks.
*, chapter=13
, title= (golf) A golf club specifically intended for a putt.
(golf) A person who is taking a putt or putting.
(patter)
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
English onomatopoeias
As verbs the difference between puttered and pattered
is that puttered is (putter) while pattered is (patter).puttered
English
Verb
(head)putter
English
Etymology 1
Alteration ofVerb
(en verb)Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=We tiptoed into the house, up the stairs and along the hall into the room where the Professor had been spending so much of his time. 'Twas locked, of course, but the Deacon man got a big bunch of keys out of his pocket and commenced to putter with the lock.}}
Etymology 2
Etymology 3
Noun
(en noun)See also
* shot-putter English heteronyms ----pattered
English
Verb
(head)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.
