patter
verb (used without object)
to make a rapid succession of light taps.
patterer
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a word derived from
patter.
Example Sentences
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The running patterer was selling his broadsides almost as fast as he could yell.
From "The Whipping Boy" by Sid Fleischman
Since the highwayman wandered, fur-coated, into the City, the patterer has lost his occupation.
From A Book of Scoundrels by Charles Whibley
"What! you're afraid, old patterer, are you?" said the Chouette, with fierce contempt.
From The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 2 of 6 by Eugène Sue
The man who hawks them, a patterer, often changes the scene of the awful event to suit the taste of the neighbourhood he is trying to delude.
From A History of the Cries of London Ancient and Modern by Charles Hindley
And the climax is reached, when you find yourself eclipsed by some minion, some dancing- master, some vile Alexandrian patterer of Ionic lays.
From Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 02 by F. G. (Francis George) Fowler
