Obs. [f. the place-name Wapping, a part of London close to the Docks + -EER.] An inhabitant of Wapping. Also attrib. Cf. WAPPINGER.
1690. D’Urfey, Collin’s Walk, II. 72. In kennel sowc’d o’re Head and Ears Amongst the crowding Wappineers.
1710. Shadwell, Fair Quaker of Deal, Dram. Pers., Flip, The Commadore, a most illiterate Wappineer-Tar.
a. 1792. Horne, in Olla Podrida (1820), I. 135. Whilst a Wappineer, a Mile-ender, and a Boroughman, are terms proverbially used, about the Exchange…, to express an inferior order of beings.
