autem cackler

plural autem cacklers

1. UKidiomaticobsoletethieves' cantA Dissenter; a Protestant who is not a follower of the Established Church (i.e. Church of England, Church of Scotland, etc).

   'Get the autem cackler,' his companion says, pointing at Tyers, mistaking him for a preacher.

   2014 December 12, Sheena Vernon, Messiah: Love, Music and Malice at a Time of Handel, John Hunt Publishing, →ISBN

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   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.

   1876, Charles Hindley, editor, The Life and Adventures of a Cheap Jack, London: Tinsley Brothers, page 260

   "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."

   2015 January 31, Lucia St. Clair Robson, Mary's Land, Lucia St. Clair Robson, →ISBN

2. UKobsoletethieves' cantA married woman.

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   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?

   1859, George Washington Matsell, The Vocabulum: or Rogues Lexicon, A Hundred Stretches Hence

   Synonyms: autem mort