patter

Meanings

Noun

Verb

Origin

  • 1610s, pat + -er, of origin.
  • Circa 1400, from paternoster, possibly influenced by imitative sense (above), Latin pater ("father"), from Proto-Indo-European *ph₂tḗr.
  • Noun attested 1758, originally referring to the cant of thieves and beggers.
  • pat + -er

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