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Wap
Wap
,Noun.
A blow or beating; a whap.
[Prov. Eng.]
Definition 2024
wap
wap
English
Noun
wap (plural waps)
Verb
wap (third-person singular simple present waps, present participle wapping, simple past and past participle wapped)
- (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.
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- (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.
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Synonyms
- (beat): see Wikisaurus:attack
- (sexual intercourse): see Wikisaurus:copulate
Derived terms
Terms derived from wap (sexual intercourse)
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
Malay
Etymology
From Proto-Malayic *uap, from Proto-Malayo-Chamic *uap, from Proto-Malayo-Sumbawan *uap, from Proto-Sunda-Sulawesi *uab.
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /uap/
- Rhymes: -uap, -wap, -ap
Noun
wap (Jawi spelling واڤ)
- steam (water vapor)