wapping

See also: Wapping

English

Verb

wapping

1. present participle and gerund of wap

Adjective

wapping (not comparable)

1. (colloquial) Archaic form of whopping (“exceptionally great or large”).

Related terms

• wapping cove
• wapping dell
• wapping ken
• wapping moll
• wapping mort

 

References

• (exceptionally great or large): 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary