wapping mort

English

Etymology

From wap (“to engage in sexual intercourse”) + mort (“woman”).

Noun

wapping mort (plural wapping morts)

1. (obsolete, UK, thieves' cant) A prostitute.
   • 2012, Beverley Oakley, The Cavalier:

     She was as willing as the wapping mort whose tunnel you chiselled last week.

Synonyms

• wapping dell, wapping moll, see also Thesaurus:prostitute

References

• John S[tephen] Farmer; W[illiam] E[rnest] Henley, compilers (1904) “wapping mort”, in Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present. […], volume VII, [London: […] Neill and Co.] […], →OCLC, pages 292–293.
• Eric Partridge (1949) A Dictionary of the Underworld, London: Macmillan Co.