| 词汇 | patter |
| 词源 | patter; paternoster. Fast talk, often a salesman’s or con man’s spiel, is called patter after paternoster, the Lord’s Prayer, so named from its first two words (Pater Noster, “Our Father”) in Latin. When saying the Paternoster, priests recited it rapidly at the start of the prayer, giving us this synonym for rapid talk as early as the 14th century. |
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