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.