autem cackler
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A Dissenter; a Protestant who is not a follower of the Established Church (i.e. Church of England, Church of Scotland, etc).
British usage; Obsolete
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "'Get the autem cackler,' his companion says, pointing at Tyers, mistaking him for a preacher."
- ""A military cove will damn us first, then tip us a sixpence, whilst an autem cackler calls down God's blessing and parts not from a thin farthing.""
- "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?"