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Перевод: patter

[существительное]
условный язык; жаргон ; скороговорка ; речитативные вставки в песню; реприза ; болтовня ; говорок ; стук дождя; легкий топот; топотание;
[глагол]
говорить скороговоркой; тараторить; бормотать; барабанить; стучать; топотать (о ребенке); семенить

Тезаурус:

1. Undecided and still bent over towards her he became aware of the patter of running feet, approaching fast.
2. My agent is not the brightest of creatures, though like many middlemen in most trades he is usually able to hide this big hole in his mind with his trendy patter and strategic placing of the latest fashionable phrase or concept.
3. Shares, goes the patter, are products like any other and so deserve the same marketing effort.
4. His patter is now issued on a cassette in which he tells the story of how he was baptised as Christian.
5. "You, Constable, said something about a conjuror's patter."
6. They drove in silence, Charlie contentedly puffing on his pipe, the only sounds being the patter of rain on the van roof and the brushing of the windscreen wipers.
7. The salesmen's patter was good, polished at each performance and repeated daily as they attended different markets.
8. In the shopping centre, the Conservative candidate and his supporters, decked in blue rosettes, thrust their campaign leaflets into largely willing hands and launched into a well-practised patter.
9. Dennis was knocking the stuff back like lager, not even bothering with his usual patter.
10. BRIGHTON Mark Steel is a comic who should be returned to at irregular intervals: see him too often (and he is all over London) and you tire of his south London patter, but go back to his schoolroom lesson after a break from the circuit, or see him off his home patch and you'll enjoy an exercise bookful of character face-pulling, energetic storytelling and witty, like-it-is observations.
11. "Perhaps people are being nave," says Simon Muggleton, "but these guys have the patter and the manners and they can be very convincing.
12. For a brief moment it seemed that the rain still hesitated, that it would only patter dispiritedly on the dust-filled gutters where its drops rolled like quick-silver.
13. "Where did the patter come in then?" enquired Detective Constable Bewman.