PITTER-PATTER Synonyms

• a sudden quick movement

• a secret move (to avoid paying debts)

• move along rapidly and lightly; skim or dart

• a condition of urgency making it necessary to hurry

• overly eager speed (and possible carelessness)

• the act of moving hurriedly and in a careless manner

• move very fast

• act at high speed

• urge to an unnatural speed

• a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property

• a rapid active commotion

• cause to move furtively and hurriedly

• move or cause to move energetically or busily

• sell something to or obtain something from by energetic and especially underhanded activity

• get by trying hard

• pressure or urge someone into an action

• military march accompanying quick time

• a ballroom dance with both quick and slow steps

• perform a quickstep

• the act of moving hurriedly and in a careless manner

• physician and American Revolutionary leader; signer of the Declaration of Independence (1745-1813)

• a sudden forceful flow

• grasslike plants growing in wet places and having cylindrical often hollow stems

• the swift release of a store of affective force

• a sudden burst of activity

• (American football) an attempt to advance the ball by running into the line

• not accepting reservations

• done under pressure

• move hurridly

• attack suddenly

• urge to an unnatural speed

• act at high speed

• run with the ball, in football

• cause to move fast or to rush or race

• cause to occur rapidly

• a light noise, like the noise of silk clothing or leaves blowing in the wind

• make a dry crackling sound

• take illegally

• forage food

• rushing about hastily in an undignified way

• to move about or proceed hurriedly

• container for coal; shaped to permit pouring the coal onto the fire

• an entrance equipped with a hatch; especially a passageway between decks of a ship

• to move about or proceed hurriedly

• to move about or proceed hurriedly

• glide easily along a surface

• cause to skip over a surface

• twitch the hook of a fishing line through or along the surface of water

• the tip of a toe

• on tiptoe or as if on tiptoe

• walk on one's toes

• A series of quick tapping sounds

• To make a series of quick tapping sounds; to palpitate

• With a quick tapping sound

• as of footsteps

• describing a rhythmic beating

• as of footsteps

• describing a rhythmic beating

• as of footsteps

• describing a rhythmic beating

• the noise of something spattering or sputtering explosively

• the act of splashing a (liquid) substance on a surface

• dash a liquid upon or against

• rain gently

• spot, splash, or soil

• a narrow strip of land that juts out into the sea

• a clear liquid secreted into the mouth by the salivary glands and mucous glands of the mouth; moistens the mouth and starts the digestion of starches

• a skewer for holding meat over a fire

• the act of spitting (forcefully expelling saliva)

• expel or eject (saliva or phlegm or sputum) from the mouth

• utter with anger or contempt

• rain gently

• drive a skewer through

• a light shower that falls in some locations and not others nearby

• the act of sprinkling or splashing water

• distribute loosely

• cause (a liquid) to spatter about, especially with force

• rain gently

• scatter with liquid; wet lightly