autem cackler

autem cackler (plural autem cacklers)

1. (idiomatic, obsolete, Britain, 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, 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.

2. (obsolete, Britain, thieves' cant) A married woman
   • 1859, Matsell, George Washington, 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?

• (Dissenter): autem prickear
• (married woman): autem mort

• (Dissenter): autem dipper (“Anabaptist”), autem quaver (“Quaker”)

• (Dissenter): autem cackle tub

• [Francis Grose] (1788), “Autem cackler”, in A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, 2nd corrected and enlarged edition, London: Printed for S. Hooper, […], OCLC 3138643.
• [Francis] Grose [et al.] (1811), “Autem cackler”, in Lexicon Balatronicum. A Dictionary of Buckish Slang, University Wit, and Pickpocket Eloquence. […], London: Printed for C. Chappell, […], OCLC 23927885.
• “autem cackler” in Albert Barrère and Charles G[odfrey] Leland, compilers and editors, A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant, volume I (A–K), Edinburgh: The Ballantyne Press, 1889–1890, page 54.
• Farmer, John Stephen (1890) Slang and Its Analogues‎, volume 1, page 80