wapsie, wopsi noun a prostitute 20. etymology: origin obscure; perhaps a development of wap ‘to copulate’ as attested by Grose and Egan (1823); or also Grose and Egan (1823) waps ‘an infected prostitute, who like a wasp, carries a sting in her tail’; attested by Galloway Tinkler-Gypsies; form wopsi collected by McCormick |