English

Noun

wapping dell ‎(plural wapping dells)

1. (archaic, Britain, cant) A prostitute.
   • 1665, Head, Richard, The English Rogue, page 45:

     And wapping Dell, that niggles well, / And takes loure for her hire.

   • 1922, Joyce, James, “Proteus”, in Ulysses, page 47:

     Buss her, wap in rogue’s rum lingo, for, O, my dimber wapping dell.

Synonyms

• wapping moll, wapping mort, see also Wikisaurus:prostitute

References

• Farmer, John Stephen (1904) Slang and Its Analogues, volume 7, pages 292–293
• Eric Partridge, A Dictionary of the Underworld, London, Macmillan Co., 1949