wapping dell

noun

wapping dell

noun

Etymology From wap (“to engage in sexual intercourse”) + dell (“young woman”).

1

UK, Obsolete A prostitute.

And wapping Dell, that niggles well, / And takes loure for her hire.1665, Richard Head, The English Rogue, page 45:
Buss her, wap in rogue’s rum lingo, for, O, my dimber wapping dell.1922, James Joyce, “Proteus”, in Ulysses, page 47:

Synonyms: wapping moll, wapping mort

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