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English
Noun
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, 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?
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- (1788) “Autem cackler”, in A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, 2nd edition, London: S. Hooper, , →OCLC.
- Grose (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 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 Farmer, compiler (1890) “autem cackler”, in Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present. ">…], volume I, ">…] Thomas Poulter and Sons] , →OCLC, page 80.