wapping ken

English

Etymology

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

Noun

wapping ken (plural wapping kens)

(obsolete, Britain, 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

Farmer, John Stephen (1904) Slang and Its Analogues‎, volume 7, pages 292–293

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