wap

See also: wap., WAP, wāp-, and wäp-

English

Pronunciation

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Noun

wap (plural waps)

1. (UK, dialect) A blow or beating; a whap.
2. (colloquial) A breast.
3. A bundle.
4. (MLE, slang) A weapon, gun.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:firearm

Verb

wap (third-person singular simple present waps, present participle wapping, simple past and past participle wapped)

1. (UK, dialect) To beat; to whap.
   • 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^[1], London: MacMillan & Co, published 1919, book 21, chapter 5, page 480:

     Sir, he said, I saw nothing but the waters wap and the waves wan.

2. (archaic, UK, thieves' cant) To engage in sexual intercourse.
   • 1611, Thomas Middleton, “The Roaring Girl”, in Arthur Henry Bullen, editor, The Works of Thomas Middleton‎^[2], volume 4, published 1885, act 5, scene 1, pages 128–129:

     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.

   • 1707, John Shirley, “The Maunder's Praise of his Strowling Mort”, in The Triumph of Wit:

     No gentry mort hath prats like thine, / No cove e'er wap'd with such a one.

   • 1988, Timberlake Wertenbaker, Our Country's Good, act 2, scene 1:

     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.

3. (obsolete, transitive) To wrap or bind.

Synonyms

• (beat): see Thesaurus:attack
• (sexual intercourse): see Thesaurus:copulate

Derived terms

Terms derived from wap (sexual intercourse)

• mort wap-apace
• wappened
• wappered
• wapping cove
• wapping dell
• wapping ken
• wapping moll
• wapping mort

References

• Albert Barrère and Charles G[odfrey] Leland, compilers and editors (1889–1890) “wap”, in A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant […], volume II (L–Z), Edinburgh: […] The Ballantyne Press, →OCLC, page 401.
• John S[tephen] Farmer; W[illiam] E[rnest] Henley, compilers (1904) “wap”, in Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present. […], volume VII, [London: […] Neill and Co.] […], →OCLC, pages 292–293.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “wap”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• APW, AWP, PAW, PWA, WPA, paw

Jumaytepeque

Noun

wap

1. foot

References

• Chris Rogers, The Use and Development of the Xinkan Languages

Malay

Etymology

From Proto-Malayic *uap, from Proto-Malayo-Chamic *uap, from Proto-Malayo-Sumbawan *uap.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /uap/
• Rhymes: -uap, -wap, -ap

Noun

wap (Jawi spelling واڤ, informal 1st possessive wapku, 2nd possessive wapmu, 3rd possessive wapnya)

1. steam (water vapor)

Further reading

• “wap” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English wharf.

Noun

wap

1. wharf