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Wanker

• (bowdlerized) w****r, w**ker

From wank +‎ -er.

• IPA^(key): /ˈwæŋkə(ɹ)/
• Rhymes: -æŋkə(ɹ)

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wanker (plural wankers) (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, slang, vulgar)

1. (derogatory) Someone who masturbates.
2. (derogatory) A term of abuse.
   1. An idiot, a stupid person.
   2. An annoying person.
   3. An ineffectual person.
   5. Someone who shows off too much, a poser or poseur; someone who is overly self-satisfied.

      Hyponyms: wanksta, wankster

3. 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.
4. (humorous) A very informal term of address used between friends.

• 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).

• (person who wanks): tosser, masturbator, onanist, pickle tickler, fingerer
• (idiot):
  • (Australian) drongo, dropkick, flog, fuckwit, whacker
  • (UK, Ireland) tosspot, tosser, bawbag, knobber, knobhead, dickhead
  • (US) jerk, jerkoff, jagoff

• wankerdom
• wankerish
• merchant banker Rhyming slang often contracted as in He is a right merchant

UK 1890s. From stwanker, from stinker. Used at Felsted School, Essex.

wanker (plural wankers)

1. (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."

• Farmer, John Stephen (1900) The Public School Word-Book‎^[1], London: Hirshfeld Brothers, page 217

• Newark, Warnke