Green’s Dictionary of Slang

a female lace-hawker, who may also tell fortunes to her customers.

1861		(con. 1840s–50s) H. Mayhew London Labour and London Poor I 424/1: They commence by offering the driss, which, as it is queer stuff, wouldn’t be picked up by an agricultural young lady, as the durynacker very well knows.
1882		Pall Mall Gaz. 4 May 2/2: The oldest male vagrant present is installed as patrico, and unites the durrynacker and her companion [...] The marriage over, the man receives from the patrico a nickname [etc.].
1887		Argus (Melbourne) 6 Aug. 4/7: Who is able to say, off hand, what a ‘durry knacker’ is? It means female hawker, and ia derived from the two German words — dorf, a village, and nachgehen, to run after.
1883		N. Devon Jrnl 8 Feb. 7/2: [from The Echo] From the German we get durryknacker, for a female hawker.
1949		Monteleone Criminal Sl. (rev. edn).