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Webster 1913 Edition

adv.

[An onomatopoetic reduplication of

pat

a light, quick blow.]

In a flutter; with palpitation or quick succession of beats.

Lowell.

“The fox’s heart went pitapat.”

L'Estrange.

Noun.

A light, repeated sound; a pattering, as of the rain.

“The pitapat of a pretty foot.”

Dryden.

adv.

[probably allied to beat.] In a flutter; with palpitation or quick succession of beats; as, his heart went pitapat.

Noun.

A light quick step.

Now I hear the pitapat of a pretty foot, through the dark alley.