wanker n.
1. a masturbator.
All Bull 150: Rise and shine! Let’s have you! I said, get up, you fucking wankers! | ||
Sky Ray Lolly 24: Wankers [...] The slob was on next, pulling at himself. | ||
Powder 367: It was Billie, the wanker, who was holding his hand. | ||
Sun. Times Mag. 6 Feb. 34: I was a donor. Yes, I’m a w***er. |
2. (also wank) a general derog. description of a lazy, incompetent, unpleasant person.
Buttons 143: I asked them directly, waving an iron bar up and down, if they still thought my prospects were wankers. | ||
Family Arsenal 195: They don’t know nothing, the wankers. | ||
Submariners I i: He sounds like a right wanker. | ||
Deathdeal [ebook] [The] real estate wankers must have dusted off the dented brass nameplate. | ||
Campus Sl. Apr. 8: wanker – loser, uncool person. | ||
Sopranos 268: Fuckin wanker, goes Manda. | ||
Yes We have No 201: A bunch of licensed wankers swapping porky-pies over lunch. | ||
Beyond Black 322: Dionnie and Keith aren’t real and Evan is a wanker. | ||
Broken Shore (2007) [ebook] You wankers [...] Looking after the rich, that’s your fucking job, isn’t it? | ||
All the Colours 94: A hand [...] making the ‘wanker’ gesture. | ||
Life 56: Mr Edgington, the wanker. Religious instruction. | ||
Frank Sinatra in a Blender [ebook] If you had the money we wouldn’t be here, ya wanker. | ||
Artefacts of the Dead [ebook] He’s a banker wanker! | ||
Decent Ride 21: Back then, only ‘wanker’ rivalled it [i.e ‘poof’] as the most common term of abuse. | ||
Adventures of the Honey Badger [ebook] ‘You blokes are wankers’. | ||
Lives Laid Away [ebook] ‘[Y]ou pathetic wankers are about three seconds away from a bloody fucking lawsuit!’. | ||
Dead Man’s Trousers 20: Been messed around by a couple of wankers, broken a few saps’ hearts. | ||
Bobby March Will Live Forever 92: Murray [...] looking like he’s had a bucket of cold water thrown over him. Served the wanker right. | ||
Mysteries of the Great City 15: ‘Watch where you’re going, wanker!’. |
3. (Aus., also wank) a pretentious individual or object.
(con. 1900s) | Breaker 205: Mark you, he’s fair! Got to be truthful – he’s a wank and an arsehole, but not an unfair man!||
Head of the Force (1982) 37: If that collection of intellectual wankers cannot masturbate their egos within the privacy of their own offices when I need space for an operational enquiry, then surely they can use the briefing-rooms. | ||
Baltic Business 72: Haven't seen you since that wank at the Institute. | ||
Girls’ Night Out 56: You look like a suburban wanker getting round in that clobber. | ||
Aussie Sl. Dict. 107: wanker - A bloke whose stupidity is only exceeded by his over-inflated opinion of himself. | ||
Tracks Oct. 66: Trev has more guts than a Waimea regular, more heart than a dozen politicians, and a love of surfing that makes ASP glory look like a self-indulgent wank. | ||
Thrill City [ebook] She swirled the name around her mouth like a wine-wanker savouring an expensive vintage. | ||
Opal Country 21: [H]e’s brought sunglasses, expensive-looking wrap-arounds. Make him look like a wanker. |
4. (US campus) an undesirable situation or thing.
Campus Sl. Nov. 4: wank, wanker – an undesirable person, situation, or thing. | ||
White Talk Black Talk 183: Give it a bit of a chance. Let the little wanker go away. |
5. the penis.
CyberAge.com 🌐 The Big Guy may not speak to him, but he was blessed with another gift: a big fat bottlesize wanker. |
6. in attrib. use of sense 2.
Braywatch 91: ‘If it’s a choice between me and your wanker teammates, I always come off second best’. |
7. see wank-pit under wank v.
In compounds
a general derog. description.
Train to Hell 21: What a fucking nob-headed, shit-faced, bollock-brained, turd-shaped, prick-arsed, wanker-faced cunt! |
a supposed illness that afflicts those who masturbate too frequently.
Plender [ebook] ‘What was up with you?’ Dreevo asked. ‘Wankers’ cramp?’. |
(orig. RAF) a fig. unpleasant fate.
Lag’s Lex. 229: A man suspected of excessive masturbation is said to be suffering from ‘whanker’s doom.’. | ||
Fill the Stage With Happy Hours (1967) Act VI: I’ll die of the wankers colic and it’s very disappointing. I should have stopped at my age. | ||
(con. WWII) Soldier Erect 80: You’ve got Wanker’s Doom, cock, you have! Don’t care if I do go blind... | ||
Don’t Point That Thing at Me (1991) 114: Mortdecai Minor, the likeliest candidate for wanker’s doom. |
a padded gilet / puffa jacket.
Twitter 10 Oct. 🌐 Fairy resounding victory for the padded gilet being a ‘wanker’s waistcoat’, aka ‘Cummings jerkin’/‘weekend barrister’/‘Fulham life vest’/‘techbro tabard’. | ||
Betoota-isms 92: Wanker’s Waistcoat [...] 1. A North Face puffer vest 2. An overpriced gilet. |
masturbation.
Confessions of Proinsias O’Toole 59: If you can dip your wick when all about you / Are punching turds or playing wanker’s whist ... |
In phrases
to be extremely busy.
Curtain Up mag. 🌐 Richard Bean has a good ear for language and his script is full of colourful local expression, ‘the manic depressive who is more up and down than a wanker’s elbow.’. |