patterer

From patter +‎ -er.

patterer (plural patterers)

1. (UK, slang, obsolete) Someone 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.

• “patterer”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary

• Perretta, pretreat