patterer

plural patterers

1. UKobsoleteslangSomeone who patters, or talks glibly.
2. UKobsoleteslangA street peddler.

   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.

   1851, Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor