† whipperginnien.
Obsolete slang.
1. A term of reprobation or abuse applied to a woman.
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the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > inferior person > [noun] > as abused > female
visenagec1460
bitch-clout?a1475
harlot?c1500
tarleather1575
whipperginnie1593
brach1612
city wire1616
she-dog1624
cunt1663
faggot1722
son of a bitch1936
1593 Tell-Trothes New-yeares Gift (1876) 13 Shee fals so hot to scoulding with the whipperginne her ostice.
1593 Tell-Trothes New-yeares Gift (1876) 21 That fornicators (after they had obtained their desires..) should..seeking other wenches, meet with whipper ginnies.
1599 H. Porter Pleasant Hist. Two Angrie Women of Abington sig. I3v What needst thou to care, whipper-Ienny, Tripe-cheeke?
2. the land of whipperginnie, apparently a nickname for purgatory.
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the world > the supernatural > deity > hell > [noun] > purgatory
purgatory?c1225
purging place?c1425
the land of whipperginnie1594
repository1638
middle world1691
1594 T. Nashe Vnfortunate Traveller sig. D3 What newes from heauen, hell, and the lande of whipperginnie.
3. Name of an old card game. Obsolete exc. archaic.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > other card games > [noun] > others
laugh and lie down1522
mack1548
decoyc1555
pinionc1557
to beat the knave out of doors1570
imperial1577
prima vista1587
loadum1591
flush1598
prime1598
thirty-perforce1599
gresco1605
hole1621
my sow's pigged1621
slam1621
fox-mine-host1622
whipperginnie1622
crimpa1637
hundred1636
pinache1641
sequence1653
lady's hole1658
quebas1668
art of memory1674
costly colours1674
penneech1674
plain dealing1674
wit and reason1680
comet1685
lansquenet1687
incertain1689
macham1689
uptails1694
quinze1714
hoc1730
commerce1732
matrimonya1743
tredrille1764
Tom come tickle me1769
tresette1785
snitch'ems1798
tontine1798
blind hazard1816
all fives1838
short cards1845
blind hookey1852
sixty-six1857
skin the lamb1864
brisque1870
handicap1870
manille1874
forty-five1875
slobberhannes1877
fifteen1884
Black Maria1885
slapjack1887
seven-and-a-half1895
pit1904
Russian Bank1915
red dog1919
fan-tan1923
Pelmanism1923
Slippery Sam1923
go fish1933
Russian Banker1937
racing demon1938
pit-a-pat1947
scopa1965
1622 J. Taylor Great O'Toole in Wks. (1630) ii. 19/2 Thou hold'st it Valours ignominy, To spend thy dayes in peacefull whip her Ginny.
1629 J. Taylor Wit & Mirth xix, in Wks. (1630) 181/2 An vnhappy boy..would fall to Cards at the Cambrian game of whip-her-ginny, or English one and thirty.
1737 Poor Robin Dec. B 7 b Maw, Whip-her-jenny, Poor and Rich, With other fruitless Pastimes.
1923 R. Graves Whipperginny 45 The minds of these two princes Were of such subtlety and such nimbleness That Whipperginny on the fall of a card Changed to Bézique or Cribbage or Piquet.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1923; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
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