wapping dell

From wap (“to engage in sexual intercourse”) + dell (“young woman”)

wapping dell (plural wapping dells)

1. (obsolete, Britain, thieves' 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.

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

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