wapping ken
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From wap (“to engage in sexual intercourse”) + ken (“house”).
Noun[edit]
wapping ken (plural wapping kens)
- (obsolete, UK, thieves' cant) A brothel.
Synonyms[edit]
Related terms[edit]
- wapping cove (“prostitute's client”), wapping dell (“prostitute”), wapping moll (“prostitute”), wapping mort (“prostitute”)
References[edit]
- John S[tephen] Farmer; W[illiam] E[rnest] Henley, compilers (1904) “wapping ken”, in Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present. […], volume VII, [London: […] Neill and Co.] […], →OCLC, pages 292–293.