autem cackler

English

autem cackler (plural autem cacklers)

(idiomatic, obsolete, UK, thieves' cant) A Dissenter; a Protestant who is not a follower of the Established Church (i.e. Church of England, Church of Scotland, etc).
- 1876, Charles Hindley, editor, The Life and Adventures of a Cheap Jack‎^[1], London: Tinsley Brothers, page 260:
  On one occasion a Jew was selling cocoa-nut when the "autem cackler," i.e., dissenting minister, came and wanted to impart to the Israelite the sin he committed in carrying on his vocation on such a day.
- 2014 December 12, Sheena Vernon, Messiah: Love, Music and Malice at a Time of Handel, John Hunt Publishing, →ISBN:
  'Get the autem cackler,' his companion says, pointing at Tyers, mistaking him for a preacher.
- 2015 January 31, Lucia St. Clair Robson, Mary's Land, Lucia St. Clair Robson, →ISBN:
  "A military cove will damn us first, then tip us a sixpence, whilst an autem cackler calls down God's blessing and parts not from a thin farthing."
(obsolete, UK, thieves' cant) A married woman
- 1859, George Washington Matsell, The Vocabulum: or Rogues Lexicon, A Hundred Stretches Hence:
  Oh! where will be the culls of the bing / A hundred stretches hence? / The bene morts, who sweetly sing, / A hundred stretches hence? / The autum-cacklers, autum-coves, / The jolly blade who wildly roves; / And where the buffer, bruiser, blowen, / And all the cops and beaks so knowin', / A hundred stretches hence?

[Francis Grose] (1788) “Autem cackler”, in A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, 2nd edition, London: […] S. Hooper, […], →OCLC.
[Francis] Grose [et al.] (1811) “Autem cackler”, in Lexicon Balatronicum. A Dictionary of Buckish Slang, University Wit, and Pickpocket Eloquence. […], London: […] C. Chappell, […], →OCLC.
Albert Barrère and Charles G[odfrey] Leland, compilers and editors (1889–1890) “autem cackler”, in A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant […], volume I (A–K), Edinburgh: […] The Ballantyne Press, →OCLC, page 54.
John S[tephen] Farmer, compiler (1890) “autem cackler”, in Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present. […], volume I, [London: […] Thomas Poulter and Sons] […], →OCLC, page 80.