wapping ken

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English

Etymology

From wap (“to engage in sexual intercourse”) + ken (“house”).

Noun

wapping ken (plural wapping kens)

(obsolete, UK, thieves' cant) A brothel.

Synonyms

See Thesaurus:brothel

Related terms

wapping cove (“prostitute's client”), wapping dell (“prostitute”), wapping moll (“prostitute”), wapping mort (“prostitute”)

References

John S[tephen] Farmer; W[illiam] E[rnest] Henley, compilers (1904) “wapping ken”, in Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present. , volume VII, Neill and Co.] , →OCLC, pages 292–293.

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