autem gogler

• autem-gogler, autem-goggler, autem goggler

autem gogler (plural autem goglers)

1. (obsolete, Britain, thieves' cant) A religious- or spiritual-based con artist or scam operator.
   • 1725, A New Canting Dictionary:

     Autem-Gogglers, a Crew of Religious Canters, pretending to be persecuted Camisars, or French Prophets, distorting their Faces with ridiculous Grimaces, &c. and laying Claim to Inspiration, in order to gather People about them, with intent to rob, plunder, or pick Pockets.

2. (obsolete, Britain, thieves' cant) Hence, a conjuror or fortuneteller.

• [Francis Grose] (1788), “Autem gogler”, in A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, 2nd corrected and enlarged edition, London: Printed for S. Hooper, […], OCLC 3138643.
• “autem gogler” 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 81
• Eric Partridge, A Dictionary of the Underworld, London, Macmillan Co., 1949