The Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue dates from 1811 and this is probably the only full, uncensored and searchable version of this dictionary on the internet. All the original crudities have been restored and it offers an interesting perspective on Common English from the time of the Regency and Jane Austen.

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Entries releated to AUTEM

 

AUTEM		A church.
AUTEM BAWLER		A parson.
AUTEM CACKLERS, AUTEM PRICKEARS		Dissenters of every denomination.
AUTEM CACKLETUB		A conventicle or meeting-house for dissenters.
AUTEM DIPPERS		Anabaptists.
AUTEM DIVERS		Pickpockets who practice in churches; also churchwardens and overseers of the poor.
AUTEM GOGLERS		Pretended French prophets.
AUTEM MORT		A married woman; also a female beggar with several children hired or borrowed to excite charity.
AUTEM QUAVER TUB		A Quakers' meeting-house.
AUTEM QUAVERS		Quakers.
CREW		A knot or gang; also a boat or ship's company. The canting crew are thus divided into twenty-three orders, which see under the different words: MEN. 1 Rufflers 2 Upright Men 3 Hookers or Anglers 4 Rogues 5 Wild Rogues 6 Priggers of Prancers 7 Palliardes 8 Fraters 9 Jarkmen, or Patricoes 10 Fresh Water Mariners, or Whip Jackets 11 Drummerers 12 Drunken Tinkers 13 Swadders, or Pedlars 14 Abrams. WOMEN. 1 Demanders for Glimmer or Fire 2 Bawdy Baskets 3 Morts 4 Autem Morts 5 Walking Morts 6 Doxies 7 Delles 8 Kinching Morts 9 Kinching Coes
HUMS		Persons at church. There is a great number of hums in the autem; there is a great congregation in the church.
JET		A lawyer. Autem jet; a parson.