Describing a rhythmic beating.
1So pitty-pat down the spirit came, noisily tumbling over the cord.
2It was enough to make Sadie's heart pitty-pat with delight.
3My heart gave a little pitty-pat and I swallowed it.
4And yet they chops make my heart go pitty-pat.'
5My heart continued to go pitty-pat.
6Traveling with the director-designate to headquarters would have once made her heart go pitty-pat, but now she was bone-tired and worried sick.
7Then Johnny Cricket's little bug heart went pitty-pat, and sounded as if it would run a race with the ticking of the clock.
8'Her heart,' she said, 'was easily set pitty-pat now.'
Translations for pitty-pat