See wapping dell on Wiktionary
{ "etymology_text": "From wap (“to engage in sexual intercourse”) + dell (“young woman”).", "forms": [ { "form": "wapping dells", "tags": [ "plural" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": {}, "expansion": "wapping dell (plural wapping dells)", "name": "en-noun" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "noun", "senses": [ { "categories": [ { "kind": "other", "name": "British English", "parents": [], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "other", "name": "English Thieves' Cant", "parents": [], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "other", "name": "English entries with incorrect language header", "parents": [ "Entries with incorrect language header", "Entry maintenance" ], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "other", "name": "Pages with 1 entry", "parents": [], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "other", "name": "Pages with entries", "parents": [], "source": "w" } ], "examples": [ { "ref": "1665, Richard Head, The English Rogue, page 45:", "text": "And wapping Dell, that niggles well, / And takes loure for her hire.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "1922, James Joyce, “Proteus”, in Ulysses, page 47:", "text": "Buss her, wap in rogue’s rum lingo, for, O, my dimber wapping dell.", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "A prostitute." ], "id": "en-wapping_dell-en-noun-NiVr4rC1", "links": [ [ "prostitute", "prostitute" ] ], "qualifier": "thieves' cant", "raw_glosses": [ "(obsolete, UK, thieves' cant) A prostitute." ], "synonyms": [ { "word": "wapping moll" }, { "word": "wapping mort" }, { "word": "prostitute" } ], "tags": [ "UK", "obsolete" ] } ], "word": "wapping dell" }
{ "etymology_text": "From wap (“to engage in sexual intercourse”) + dell (“young woman”).", "forms": [ { "form": "wapping dells", "tags": [ "plural" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": {}, "expansion": "wapping dell (plural wapping dells)", "name": "en-noun" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "noun", "senses": [ { "categories": [ "British English", "English Thieves' Cant", "English countable nouns", "English entries with incorrect language header", "English lemmas", "English multiword terms", "English nouns", "English terms with obsolete senses", "English terms with quotations", "Pages with 1 entry", "Pages with entries" ], "examples": [ { "ref": "1665, Richard Head, The English Rogue, page 45:", "text": "And wapping Dell, that niggles well, / And takes loure for her hire.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "1922, James Joyce, “Proteus”, in Ulysses, page 47:", "text": "Buss her, wap in rogue’s rum lingo, for, O, my dimber wapping dell.", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "A prostitute." ], "links": [ [ "prostitute", "prostitute" ] ], "qualifier": "thieves' cant", "raw_glosses": [ "(obsolete, UK, thieves' cant) A prostitute." ], "tags": [ "UK", "obsolete" ] } ], "synonyms": [ { "word": "wapping moll" }, { "word": "wapping mort" }, { "word": "prostitute" } ], "word": "wapping dell" }
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