autem gogler

• autem-gogler, autem-goggler, autem goggler

autem gogler (plural autem goglers)

1. (obsolete, UK, thieves' cant) A religious- or spiritual-based con artist or scam operator.
   • 1725, A New Canting Dictionary:

     Autem-Gogglers, a Crew of Religious Canters, pretending to be persecuted Camisars, or French Prophets, distorting their Faces with ridiculous Grimaces, &c. and laying Claim to Inspiration, in order to gather People about them, with intent to rob, plunder, or pick Pockets.

2. (obsolete, UK, thieves' cant) Hence, a conjuror or fortuneteller.

• [Francis Grose] (1788), “Autem gogler”, in A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, 2nd edition, London: […] S. Hooper, […], OCLC 1179630700.
• Albert Barrère and Charles G[odfrey] Leland, compilers and editors (1889–1890), “autem gogler”, in A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant […], volume I (A–K), Edinburgh: […] The Ballantyne Press, OCLC 882571771, page 54.
• Farmer, John Stephen (1890) Slang and Its Analogues‎, volume 1, page 81
• Eric Partridge, A Dictionary of the Underworld, London, Macmillan Co., 1949