1889. Answers, 20 July, p. 121, col. 2. If you want to get rid of an importunate tramp tell him to ‘stow his patter,’ or you will get him a FLUMMUT.
1851–61. H. MAYHEW, London Labour and the London Poor, vol. I., p. 232. He [patterer] mostly chalks a signal on or near the door. I give one or two instances. ‘FLUMMUT,’ sure of a month in quod.
