English

Noun

wap ‎(plural waps)

1. (Britain, dialect) A blow or beating; a whap.

Verb

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

1. (Britain, dialect) To beat; to whap.
   • 1485, Malory, Sir Thomas, “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:

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

2. (archaic, Britain, cant) To engage in sexual intercourse.
   • 1611, Middleton, Thomas, “The Roaring Girl”, in Bullen, Arthur Henry, editor, The Works of Thomas Middleton, 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, Shirley, John, “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, Wertenbaker, Timberlake, 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.

Synonyms

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

Derived terms

References

• Barrère, Albert; Leland, Charles Godfrey (1889) A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant, volume 2, page 401
• Farmer, John Stephen (1904) Slang and Its Analogues, volume 7, pages 292–293

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, from Proto-Sunda-Sulawesi *uab.

Alternative forms

• واڤ

Pronunciation

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

Noun

wap ‎(Jawi spelling واڤ)

1. steam (water vapor)