autem cackler

Noun

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?

References

• Grose, Francis (1788) A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue‎, 2nd edition, London: S. Hooper
• Grose, Francis, The Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue / Lexicon Balatronicum: A Dictionary of Buckish Slang, University Wit, and Pickpocket Eloquence: altered and enlarged (London; 1811)
• “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