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patterer|ˈpætərə(r)|
[f. patter v.1 + -er1.]
One who patters. a. One who says paternosters, or mechanically repeats prayers, formulæ, etc.
1513Douglas æneis viii. Prol. 105 Preistis [quha] suld be patereris and for the peple pray. 1835Court Mag. VI. 108/1 This pale-faced patterer of prayers and retailer of grave sayings. 1889J. S. Nicholson Dreamer of Dreams i. i. 4 Enthusiasts for freedom and patterers of creeds.
b. One who speaks rapidly or glibly with little regard to sense or matter; one who ‘speechifies’ like a cheapjack; one who speaks the ‘patter’ or cant of a set of people.
1552Huloet, Superfluouse patterer of wordes, battologus. 1849H. Ainsworth Rookwood Pref. (1878) 30 Its meaning must be perfectly clear and perspicuous to the practised patterer of Romany, or Pedlar's French. 1851Mayhew Lond. Labour I. 213/1 The class of street-orators, known in these days as ‘patterers’ and formerly termed ‘mountebanks’,—who..strive to ‘help off their wares by pompous speeches in which little regard is paid either to truth or propriety’. 1870F. Jacox Rec. of a Recluse I. i. 17 The street patterers of London, and those who buy their wares. |