subs. (common).—1. The female pudendum: see MONOSYLLABLE, and note the veiledly obscene street catch-phrase of the 1870s, ‘I’ll have your WHELK.’
2. (provincial).—A blow (also WHELKER), fall, blister, mark, or stripe.
3. (provincial).—A large number, a quantity: whence WHELKING = very large, big, numerous.
