Patterer

noun, slang

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Someone who patters, or talks glibly. UK, obsolete, slang
  2. 2
    A street peddler. UK, obsolete, slang

    "The running patterer cares less than other street-sellers for bad weather, for if he "work" on a wet and gloomy evening, and if the work be "a cock," which is a fictitious statement or even a pretended fictitious statement, there is the less chance of any one detecting the ruse."

Etymology

From patter + -er.

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