tatterer

English

Etymology

From tatter +‎ -er.

Noun

tatterer (plural tatterers)

1. (rare) One who or that which tatters.
   • 1968, Socialist Vanguard News Letter Service. Bulletin, page 38:

     Some people are better language-tatterers than others. And it would not, I think, be out of place here to take a closer look at an excellent example of that craft.

   • 1983, Thomas E. Mittler, Annual Review of Entomology, page 305:

     Leaf Tatterers and Defoliators
     This group of pecan arthropods can cause damage to foliage from shortly after budbreak until about the time of pollination.