| 单词 | to go pit-a-pat |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto go pit-a-pat With a series of rapidly alternating or repeated light sounds, as of a quick heartbeat, footsteps, etc.; palpitatingly: patteringly. Frequently in to go pit-a-pat. Also as int. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > repeated sound or succession of sounds > [adverb] > patter or splatter pit-a-pata1535 pitter-patter1642 pitter-litter1910 a1535 T. More Treat. Memorare Nouissima in Wks. (1557) I. 93 Some wretches yt scant can crepe for age..walk pit pat vpon a paire of patens. 1602 B. Jonson Poetaster iv. i. sig. G You shall haue kisses..,goe pit-pat, pit-pat, pit-pat, vpon your Lips, as thicke as stones out of slings. View more context for this quotation a1625 J. Fletcher Island Princesse iii. i, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Ooov/1 And how their hearts go pit a pat. 1693 W. Congreve Old Batchelour ii. i. 11 Agad my heart has gone a pit pat for thee. a1758 A. Ramsay Highland Lassie iii My flighterin heart gangs pittie-pattie. 1769 H. Brooke Fool of Quality IV. xvii. 170 Her feet went pit-a-pat with joy. 1841 C. Dickens Barnaby Rudge liii. 242 Tramp, tramp, pit-pat, on they come together. 1871 G. Meredith Harry Richmond III. viii. 119 Her heart..was easily set pitty-pat. 1915 W. S. Maugham Of Human Bondage xxxiv. 175 He leaned over her, and his heart went pit-a-pat. 1985 S. Sucharitkul Alien Swordmaster i. i. 3 She could sense her heart beating, pitapat..pitapat—too slow! < as lemmas |
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