Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—W

Wapping Great

means astonishingly great. (Anglo-Saxon, wafian, to be astonished; wafung, amazement.) A “wapper” is a great falsehood.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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