autem dipper

English

Etymology

From autem (“church”) + dip (“The action of dipping or plunging for a moment into a liquid.”) +‎ -er, referencing the practice of baptism by being dipped in water.

Noun

autem dipper (plural autem dippers)

  1. (idiomatic, obsolete, Britain, thieves' cant) An Anabaptist.

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References

  • 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 dipper” 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
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