patterer

English

Etymology

patter +‎ -er

Noun

patterer (plural patterers)

1. (UK, slang, obsolete) One who patters, or talks glibly.
2. (UK, slang, obsolete) A street peddler.
   • 1851, Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor:

     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.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “patterer”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

References

• John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary

Anagrams

• Perretta, pretreat