pittering
/ˈpɪtərɪŋ/adjective
That makes a rapid succession of light taps or similar sounds.
Origin
Late 16th century; earliest use found in 1st Part Raigne Selimus. Either from pitter + -ing, or from pitter + -ing, although in both cases the verb is apparently first attested later.
- consumerization
- consumer price index
- consumer research
- consumer resistance
- Consumers' Council
- consumers' credit
- consumers' goods
- consumer society
- consumer sovereignty
- consumers' rent
- consumers' surplus
- consumers' wealth
- consumer terrorism
- consumer unit
- consuming
- consumingly
- consummate
- consummately
- consummation
- consummative
- consummatively
- consummator
- consummatory
- consumptibility
- consumptible