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I'm no dimber mort, I says. Don't ask you to be a swell mollisher, sister, coves want Miss Laycock, don't look at your mug. So I begin to sell my mother of saints.", "type": "quotation" } ], "glosses": [ "To engage in sexual intercourse." ], "id": "en-wap-en-verb-PEr5nNjm", "links": [ [ "sexual intercourse", "sexual intercourse" ] ], "qualifier": "thieves' cant", "raw_glosses": [ "(obsolete, UK, thieves' cant) To engage in sexual intercourse." ], "synonyms": [ { "_dis1": "1 99 0", "sense": "sexual intercourse", "word": "copulate" } ], "tags": [ "UK", "obsolete" ] }, { "categories": [], "glosses": [ "To wrap or bind." ], "id": "en-wap-en-verb-ViB32jwd", "links": [ [ "wrap", "wrap" ], [ "bind", "bind" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(obsolete, transitive) To wrap or bind." ], "tags": [ "obsolete", "transitive" ] } ], "word": "wap" }
{ "categories": [ "en:Sex" ], "forms": [ { "form": "waps", "tags": [ "plural" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": {}, "expansion": "wap (plural waps)", "name": "en-noun" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "noun", "senses": [ { "categories": [ "British English", "English dialectal terms" ], "glosses": [ "A blow or beating; a whap." ], "links": [ [ "blow", "blow" ], [ "beating", "beating" ], [ "whap", "whap" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(UK, dialect) A blow or beating; a whap." ], "tags": [ "UK", "dialectal" ] }, { "categories": [ "English colloquialisms" ], "glosses": [ "A breast." ], "links": [ [ "breast", "breast" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(colloquial) A breast." ], "tags": [ "colloquial" ] }, { "glosses": [ "A bundle." ], "links": [ [ "bundle", "bundle" ] ] }, { "categories": [ "English slang", "Multicultural London English", "en:Firearms" ], "glosses": [ "A weapon, gun." ], "links": [ [ "weapon", "weapon" ], [ "gun", "gun" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(MLE, slang) A weapon, gun." ], "synonyms": [ { "word": "firearm" } ], "tags": [ "Multicultural-London-English", "slang" ] } ], "word": "wap" } { "categories": [ "en:Sex" ], "derived": [ { "word": "mort wap-apace" }, { "word": "wappened" }, { "word": "wappered" }, { "word": "wapping cove" }, { "word": "wapping dell" }, { "word": "wapping ken" }, { "word": "wapping moll" }, { "word": "wapping mort" } ], "forms": [ { "form": "waps", "tags": [ "present", "singular", "third-person" ] }, { "form": "wapping", "tags": [ "participle", "present" ] }, { "form": "wapped", "tags": [ "participle", "past" ] }, { "form": "wapped", "tags": [ "past" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": {}, "expansion": "wap (third-person singular simple present waps, present participle wapping, simple past and past participle wapped)", "name": "en-verb" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "verb", "senses": [ { "categories": [ "British English", "English dialectal terms", "English terms with quotations" ], "examples": [ { "ref": "1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “How king Arthur commanded to cast his sword Excalibur into the water and how he was delivered to ladies in a barge”, in Le Morte d'Arthur, London: MacMillan & Co, published 1919, book 21, chapter 5, page 480", "text": "Sir, he said, I saw nothing but the waters wap and the waves wan.", "type": "quotation" } ], "glosses": [ "To beat; to whap." ], "links": [ [ "beat", "beat" ], [ "whap", "whap" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(UK, dialect) To beat; to whap." ], "tags": [ "UK", "dialectal" ] }, { "categories": [ "British English", "English terms with obsolete senses", "English terms with quotations", "Thieves' cant" ], "examples": [ { "ref": "1611, Thomas Middleton, “The Roaring Girl”, in Arthur Henry Bullen, editor, The Works of Thomas Middleton, volume 4, published 1885, act 5, scene 1, pages 128–129", "text": "Ben mort, shall you and I heave a bough, mill a ken, or nip a bung, and then we'll couch a hogshead under the ruffmans, and there you shall wap with me, and I'll niggle with you.", "type": "quotation" }, { "ref": "1707, John Shirley, “The Maunder's Praise of his Strowling Mort”, in The Triumph of Wit", "text": "No gentry mort hath prats like thine, / No cove e'er wap'd with such a one.", "type": "quotation" }, { "ref": "1988, Timberlake Wertenbaker, Our Country's Good, act 2, scene 1", "text": "Liz, he says, why trine for a make, when you can wap for a winne. I'm no dimber mort, I says. Don't ask you to be a swell mollisher, sister, coves want Miss Laycock, don't look at your mug. So I begin to sell my mother of saints.", "type": "quotation" } ], "glosses": [ "To engage in sexual intercourse." ], "links": [ [ "sexual intercourse", "sexual intercourse" ] ], "qualifier": "thieves' cant", "raw_glosses": [ "(obsolete, UK, thieves' cant) To engage in sexual intercourse." ], "tags": [ "UK", "obsolete" ] }, { "categories": [ "English terms with obsolete senses", "English transitive verbs" ], "glosses": [ "To wrap or bind." ], "links": [ [ "wrap", "wrap" ], [ "bind", "bind" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(obsolete, transitive) To wrap or bind." ], "tags": [ "obsolete", "transitive" ] } ], "synonyms": [ { "sense": "beat", "word": "attack" }, { "sense": "sexual intercourse", "word": "copulate" } ], "word": "wap" }
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