wanker
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[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]wanker (plural wankers) (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, slang, vulgar)
- (derogatory) A person who masturbates.
- (derogatory) A term of abuse.
- An idiot, a stupid person.
- An annoying person.
- An ineffectual person.
- Someone who shows off too much, a poser or poseur; someone who is overly self-satisfied.
- A penis.
- 2019 April 16, Skye Smith, The Pistoleer - Lyme 1644: Novel Nine of the Series by Skye Smith, Skye Smith, →ISBN:
- He walked closer to the trees and then pulled out his wanker and took a piss. While he was watering a clump of grass he called out calmly to the men in the trees, "We've come in peace to recruit men for our companies of dragoons."
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:wanker.
- (humorous) A very informal term of address used between friends.
Usage notes
[edit]- Refers mainly to males. A 2000 study by several British broadcasting organizations found that "wanker" was the fourth most offensive word in the UK (after cunt, motherfucker, and fuck).
Synonyms
[edit]- (person who wanks): tosser, masturbator, onanist, pickle tickler, fingerer
- (idiot):
Derived terms
[edit]- wankerdom
- wankerish
- merchant banker Rhyming slang often contracted as in He is a right merchant
Translations
[edit]person who masturbates
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idiot
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someone who shows off too much
Etymology 2
[edit]UK 1890s. From stwanker, from stinker. Used at Felsted School, Essex.
Noun
[edit]wanker (plural wankers)
- (obsolete, British, school slang) A salted, and lightly smoked herring or mackerel; a bloater.
- 1892 October, The Felstedian, page 105:
- My name it is "wanker";
a leaner or lanker,
Salter or ranker,
fish never swam.
- 1897 June, The Felstedian, page 100:
- He sniffs. "'Eugh, wankers again."
References
[edit]- Farmer, John Stephen (1900) The Public School Word-Book[1], London: Hirshfeld Brothers, page 217
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