[pat-er] 
| 1. | meaningless, rapid talk; mere chatter; gabble. |
| 2. | the usually glib and rapid speech or talk used by a magician while performing, a barker at a circus or sideshow, a comedian or other entertainer, a vendor of questionable wares, or the like; stylized or rehearsed talk used to attract attention, entertain, etc. |
| 3. | amusing lines delivered rapidly by an entertainer or performer, as in a comic routine or in a song. |
| 4. | the jargon or cant of any class, group, etc. |
| 5. | to talk glibly or rapidly, esp. with little regard to meaning; chatter. |
| 6. | to repeat a paternoster or other prayer in a rapid, mechanical way. |
| 7. | to recite or repeat (prayers, verses, etc.) in a rapid, mechanical way. |
| 8. | to repeat or say rapidly or glibly. |
| pat·ter 2 (pāt'ər) v. pat·tered, pat·ter·ing, pat·ters v. intr.
To utter in a glib, rapid, or mechanical manner. n.
[Middle English pateren, shortening and alteration of paternoster, paternoster (from the mechanical and rapid recitation of the prayer); see paternoster.] pat'ter·er n. |
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