autem quaver
English
Noun
autem quaver (plural autem quavers)
- (obsolete, Britain, thieves' cant) A Quaker.
Hypernyms
- autem cackler (“Dissenter”), autem prickear
Derived terms
References
- Grose, Francis (1788) A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, 2nd edition, London: S. Hooper
- “autem quaver” 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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