"wapping dell" meaning in All languages combined

See wapping dell on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: wapping dells [plural]
Etymology: From wap (“to engage in sexual intercourse”) + dell (“young woman”). Head templates: {{en-noun}} wapping dell (plural wapping dells)
  1. (obsolete, UK, thieves' cant) A prostitute. Tags: UK, obsolete Synonyms: wapping moll, wapping mort, prostitute

Inflected forms

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  "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"
    }
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  "senses": [
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        {
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          "parents": [],
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        },
        {
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          "parents": [],
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        },
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          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
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            "Entry maintenance"
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      ],
      "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",
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        "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."
      ],
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          "prostitute"
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      ],
      "qualifier": "thieves' cant",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete, UK, thieves' cant) A prostitute."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "UK",
        "obsolete"
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  ],
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    {
      "word": "wapping moll"
    },
    {
      "word": "wapping mort"
    },
    {
      "word": "prostitute"
    }
  ],
  "word": "wapping dell"
}

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