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wanker

nounnounattested in dialogue

  • Australia//ˈwæŋkə//
  • Ireland//ˈwæŋkɚ//

Someone who wanks; masturbates.

noun

  1. 1

    slangSomeone who wanks; masturbates.

  2. 2

    slangA term of abuse. An idiot, a stupid person.

  3. 3

    slangA term of abuse. An annoying person.

  4. 4

    slangA term of abuse. An ineffectual person.

  5. 5

    slangA term of abuse. Someone who shows off too much, a poser or poseur; someone who is overly self-satisfied.

  6. 6

    slangA penis.

    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."

  7. 7

    slangA very informal term of address used between friends.

Etymology

Etymology tree English wank Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English wanker From wank + -er.

noun

  1. 1

    obsoleteA salted and lightly smoked herring or mackerel; a bloater.

    My name it is "wanker"; a leaner or lanker, Salter or ranker, fish never swam.

    He sniffs. "'Eugh, wankers again."

Etymology

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

Forms

plural
wankers
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).