English

Noun

autem cackler ‎(plural autem cacklers)

1. (idiomatic, archaic, slang, 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. (archaic, Britain, 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?

Synonyms

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

Hyponyms

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

Derived terms

• (Dissenter): autem cackle tub

References

• Grose, Francis (1788) A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, 2nd edition, London: S. Hooper
• Barrère, Albert; Leland, Charles Godfrey (1889) A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant, volume 1, page 54
• Farmer, John Stephen (1890) Slang and Its Analogues, volume 1, page 80