pattersome

pattersome

English

Etymology

From patter +‎ -some.

Adjective

pattersome (comparative more pattersome, superlative most pattersome)

1. Characterised or marked by pattering
   • 1888, Time: A Monthly Magazine - Volume 19, page 255:

     Of course among lilts so light many are unequal — some, if we may so term them, too "pattersome" for their subjects ; but if all are not poetry, all are at least verse — a rarer quality in these pretentious days than some imagine.

   • 1936, J.C. Squire, ‎Rolfe Arnold Scott-James, The London Mercury - Volume 33, page 594:

     Of course I know that gnomes do not exist; neither could I have believed that the Bamileke people were real until I saw them working in the fields, scuttering down the roads under colossal burdens, so pattersome and twinklefoot are they.

Anagrams

• metatropes