New light on the meaning of the verb "to kipple"

[c_elisa]

In 1907 Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall -- who hadn't taken the pen name "Radclyffe Hall" yet -- fell in love with a married lieder singer named Mabel Batten. Hall's biographer Sally Cline is explaining how well Hall got along with Mabel's husband when suddenly her rhetoric throws a shoe:At seventy-six George was more than old enough to be Marguerite's

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[cesario]

*laughs and laughs and laughs*

Is it possible she did understand it's full meaning, and that part of treating MR-H like "a son in law" meant making girlie jokes?

[c_elisa]

I wondered about that, but the way she steams right ahead through the rest of the paragraph, it just doesn't seem like she's aware of a double entendre. I could be wrong.