wapping dell

== English == === Etymology === From wap (“to engage in sexual intercourse”) + dell (“young woman”). === Noun === wapping dell (plural wapping dells) (obsolete, UK, thieves' cant) A prostitute. ==== Synonyms ==== wapping moll, wapping mort, see also Thesaurus:prostitute === References === John S[tephen] Farmer; W[illiam] E[rnest] Henley, compilers (1904), “wapping dell”, 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.