[f. Wapping + -ER1.] An inhabitant of Wapping. Cf. WAPPINEER.
a. 1734. North, Exam., III. viii. (1740), 585. Rous … was a thorough paced Traitor, and looked upon to be Paymaster of the Mob; a Wappinger, and good at mustering Seamen.
1898. Besant, Orange Girl, I. vi. The girls … stared with more rudeness than one would expect even from a Wappinger.
