Obs. slang. Also 6 whipper-ienny, 7 whip her Ginny, whip-her-ginny, 8 whip-her-jenny. [Of obscure origin.]
1. A term of reprobation or abuse applied to a woman.
1593. Tell-trothe’s N. Y. Gift (1876), 13. Shee fals so hot to scoulding with the whipperginne her ostice. Ibid., 21. That fornicators (after they had obtained their desires…) should … seeking other wenches, meet with whipper ginnies.
1599. Porter, Angry Wom. Abingt. (Percy Soc.), 103. What needst thou to care, whipper-ienny, tripe-cheeks?
2. The land of whipperginnie, app. a nickname for purgatory.
1594. Nashe, Unfort. Trav., C 3 b. What newes from heauen, hell, and the land of whipperginnie.
3. Name of an old game at cards.
1622. J. Taylor (Water P.), O’Toole, Wks. (1630), II. 19/2. Thou hold’st it Valours ignominy, To spend thy dayes in peacefull whip her Ginny. Ibid. (1629), Wit & Mirth, xix. ibid., 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.
