wapping mort
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From wap (“to engage in sexual intercourse”) + mort (“woman”).
Noun[edit]
wapping mort (plural wapping morts)
- (obsolete, UK, thieves' cant) A prostitute.
- 2012, Beverley Oakley, The Cavalier:
- She was as willing as the wapping mort whose tunnel you chiselled last week.
Synonyms[edit]
- wapping dell, wapping moll, see also Thesaurus:prostitute
References[edit]
- John S[tephen] Farmer; W[illiam] E[rnest] Henley, compilers (1904) “wapping mort”, in Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present. […], volume VII, [London: […] Neill and Co.] […], →OCLC, pages 292–293.
- Eric Partridge (1949) A Dictionary of the Underworld, London: Macmillan Co.