Etymology

From wap (“to engage in sexual intercourse”) + mort (“woman”).

Noun

wapping mort (plural wapping morts)Category:English lemmas#WAPPINGMORTCategory:English nouns#WAPPINGMORTCategory:English countable nouns#WAPPINGMORTCategory:English multiword terms#WAPPINGMORTCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#WAPPINGMORTCategory:Pages with entries#WAPPING%20MORTCategory:Pages with 1 entry#WAPPING%20MORT

1. (obsoleteCategory:English terms with obsolete senses#WAPPINGMORT, UKCategory:British English#WAPPINGMORT, thieves' cantCategory:English Thieves' Cant#WAPPINGMORT) A prostitute.
   • 2012, Beverley Oakley, The Cavalier:

     She was as willing as the wapping mort whose tunnel you chiselled last week.

     Category:English terms with quotations#WAPPINGMORT

References

• John S[tephen] Farmer; W[illiam] E[rnest] Henley, compilers (1904), “wapping mort”, in Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present. […], volume VII, [London: […] Neill and Co.] […], →OCLC, pages 292–293.
• Eric Partridge (1949), A Dictionary of the Underworld, London: Macmillan Co.