wapping mort
English
Etymology
From wap (“to engage in sexual intercourse”) + mort (“woman”).
Noun
wapping mort (plural wapping morts)
- (obsolete, UK, thieves' cant) A prostitute.
- 2012, Oakley, Beverley, The Cavalier:
- She was as willing as the wapping mort whose tunnel you chiselled last week.
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Synonyms
- wapping dell, wapping moll, see also Thesaurus:prostitute
References
- Farmer, John Stephen (1904) Slang and Its Analogues, volume 7, pages 292–293
- Eric Partridge, A Dictionary of the Underworld, London, Macmillan Co., 1949