wank v.
1. (also wank off, whank) to masturbate.
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Memoirs of a Vuluptuary (1906) I 8: You have never wanked yourself off before, have you? | |
| Memoirs of a Vuluptuary (1906) I 33: I don’t know whether I shall be able to keep from wanking when I get into bed. | |
 | implied in wank-pit | |
| Lag’s Lex. 229: Whank, to, to masturbate. | |
| Owning Up (1974) 178: When the Chair had finished David Litvinoff rose with a question. Was it, he asked politely, permitted for the audience to wank during the recital? | |
| He Died with His Eyes Open 65: I’ve never had an orgasm in my life, not even when I wank. | |
| Guardian G2 20 Feb. 6: It’ll be me wanking over my Baftas with a three-legged blind dog. | |
![[Scot]](/static/img/flags/sco.png "Scotland") | All the Colours 11: ‘I’d have thought you did a lot of this over the phone.’ ‘What?’ ‘Wanking off’. | |
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | me-stepmums-too-fuckin-hot-mate at www.fakku.net 🌐 If you wanted to wank over me knickers, you y’just had to ask. | |
| Empty Wigs (t/s) 721: ‘I used to wank on photos of her when I was a kid’. |
2. (also wank off) to masturbate another person.
| Memoirs of a Vuluptuary (1906) I 67: Now wank me, and keep as close to my bottom as possible. | |
| Apples (2023) 26: I tried to wank Fairhurst for a bit then we had oral sex. | |
| Panopticon (2013) 80: The only person that’ll be wanking Jay is some guy in the jail. | |
| Bloody January 62: ‘[I]f you’ve finished wanking him off, you can beat it before I call Murray’. | |
| May God Forgive 269: ‘Ally said I’d wank him off for another two quid’. |
3. (also wang on, wank on) in fig. use, to waste time, to pontificate verbally (usu. constr. with about); thus wanking n.
| Family Arsenal 227: Hey Arfa! Let’s go, mate – stop wanking! | |
| Tryst 41: Steve was [...] told to stop wanking about. | |
| ‘I’m Pulling for Ya, Pee Wee’ in What Do You Reckon (1997) [ebook] You’ve been wanking non-stop [...] in your letters. | |
![[Can]](/static/img/flags/can.png "Canada") | Watch Mag. 9 Feb. 17/1: [Oasis] have gotten a reputation for being a juicy interview for jaded journalists tired of earnest musicians [...] wanking on about how their music is deep,. | |
| Cranked Up Really High 48: Many of whom were prone to wanking on about artistic integrity. | |
| City of Light 136: Of course there were the cynics and the sourpusses wanking on about how Fremantle would be ruined by the development. | |
| Yes We Have No 338: If you’re vanking, do it somewhere else. | |
| Edge of Reason [ebook] I generally avoid getting into arguments about politics [...] out of fear someone will then start wanging on about the single currency. | |
![[Ire]](/static/img/flags/ire.png "Ireland") | Time Tracks 69: [T]alk turns to How my Mother gets on my Wick or How my Oul’ Fellow is always Wanging on about the Government. | |
![[NZ]](/static/img/flags/nz.png "New Zealand") | Earth Warriors 60: [T]he government wanking on about this or that Maori here or there. | |
| Mr Almost Right [ebook] Tarquin kept me stranded in his caravan for much of yesterday, wanging on about his tedious ‘vision’. | |
| Everything I Know [ebook] Hector wanging on about the history of nipple clamps in his annoying, drunk Nigel Havers voice. | |
| Going to America [ebook] I’d had enough [...] of him wanging on about Chris's infidelities. | |
| Rabbit Hole [ebook] A happy place, or a babbling brook or whatever it is that shrinks and therapists are always wanking on about. |
4. in fig. use, to abuse someone else.
| Family Arsenal 19: ARSENAL RULE [...] SPURS WANK. | |
| Filth 322: He was wanking all over me. |
5. to be logged on to a computer for a long time.
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | College Sl. Dict. 🌐 wank [Columbia] 1. (n) a person who is logged on for a huge amount of time 2. (v) to log on, to stay logged on, and to hack your brains out while drinking lots of JOLT or Mountain Dew 3. (adj) having the properties of a wank. |
In derivatives
a state of pretentiousness.
| (eds) Trouser Press Guide to '90s Rock (5 edn) 754/2: Adam Jones is as tasteful as metal players come, always looking for some sonic alternative to typical axe-hero wankerdom. | |
| Sydney Morn. Herald 5 Apr. 🌐 He was reluctant to do this interview because [...] it might be a step down the road to wankerdom. | |
| Man of Month Club n.p.: ‘Hello, good evening, and fuck off,’ snarled Greg [...] It wasn't his gayness, it was his wankerdom Greg took against. | |
| My Heart is a Drunken Compass 22: [The] usual moping, fauxartist adolescent agonizing in literature—the Salinger, the Camus, the James Joyce, and the soundtrack to wankerdom in The Cure, Joy Division, and The Smiths. |
pointless and/or pretentious activity, speech, etc.
| Arena (Sydney) #2 17: Call it compassion, call it self-indulgent wankery, call it what you like...it won’t change my motives. | |
| Locked Ward (2013) 283: Wishbone Ash and other sundry wankery. | |
| Observer 18 Aug. 🌐 [I]t does feel a little bit near the business end of things for politicians to be indulging in the weapons-grade wankery we’ve seen this week. | |
| I Am Already Dead 30: Lee put the boasting down to the regular wankery of a small-city tycoon, with an added dose of short-man syndrome. |
in a second-rate manner.
| Roger’s Profanisaurus in Viz 87 Dec. n.p.: wankily adj. Badly; sub standard. ‘He did that really wankily.’. |
In compounds
a general term of abuse.
| Filth 30: He’s fucking up my crossword time, the helium-filled wank-bag. | |
| Cartoon City 12: The sound of REM singing ‘Driver 8’ filled the car. ‘I hate these bleeding wankbags,’ Dez said. |
a bed.
| Guardian Weekend 1 July 20/3: A bed was a ‘wanking chariot’’. |
a pornographic magazine.
| Stump 168: Fuckin wankmags for them people, them fuckin bukes are. Wanner read about how the scum live. | |
| ‘In Savage Freedom’ in Crime Factory: Hard Labour [ebook] Wank mags, a blue tarp and two shovels. | |
| Bloody January 66: ‘Get the stuff back to me and that’ll be another fiver in a wank mag for your collection’. |
a bed (cf. wanking pit under wanking n.).
| Dict. Forces’ Sl. 203: wank-pit; wanker. A bed. (Air Force). |
see separate entry.
a large, ostentatious car, purchased for the enhancement of its owner’s ego and the display of his material success.
| Be My Enemy 44: There were already four other vehicles parked [...] including the ostentatious urban wank-tank. |
In phrases
exhausted.
| You Flash Bastard 201: He had an intelligent face and a constant tan, as well he might for he had a small wanked-out vineyard down in Southern Italy, not far from Squillace. | |
| in Little Legs 113: By the morning I was right wanked out because I’d had no kip. |
1. to masturbate.
| ‘Eskimo Nell’ in Bawdy Ballads XIV: Back to the land of the mighty stand, where the nights are six months long, / Where the polar bear whanks off in his lair. | |
| Adolescent Boys of East London (1969) 54: Me and my mates, we tell everybody we wank off. | |
| ‘Groupie Gloss.’ on Groupies [album] Whank-off: to masturbate. | |
| Faggots 49: Today its even considered healthy to wank off. | |
| Trainspotting 198: We used to wank off tae porno mags as wee laddies. | |
| Vatican Bloodbath 37: Liberated from the need to conceal his predilection for pre-teen boys, no longer confined to merely fondling choir boys and wanking off in confessionals. |
2. to masturbate another person, usu, male; also in fig. use, to behave self-indulgently.
| Indep. Rev. 3 Aug. 2: How long are you people going to sit in an air-pocket wanking each other off? | |
| Sheepshagger 142: Gwenno yer might even go to bed with yew. Let yew fuckin do her. Suck yewer knob. Wank yew off. |
to bore, to talk nonsense for a long time.
| Outside In Act II: Cowface’ll do her number. Wankin’ on about peace an’ goodwill. | |
| Passing Show (Sydney) #7 n.p.: The MUSC election saw a great deal of wanking on. | |
| Guardian 12 Dec. 🌐 Wonderwoman did not fight crime by pinning people into the corner at parties and wanging on about herself for an hour. | |
| Arena (Sydney) #2 16: I’d like to complain about the article in Arena [...] that wanks on endlessly about theatre at Macquarie. | |
| Leaves on the Line [ebook] You've been wanging on about your own particular bugbear for three minutes, which is two minutes 50 seconds longer than I was actually interested. | |
| Twitter 18 Oct. 🌐 Sorry (not that sorry) to wang on about this, but it's genuinely quite thrilling to see [...] Anglo-Saxon manuscripts on a massive Tube campaign. | |
| Twitter 28 Oct. 🌐 If there were genuine benefits to the Brexit moronathon, they’d be wanging on about them, instead of desperately making up stuff . |
to masturbate.
| AllAboutSex.org 🌐 ‘Words for Masturbation’ [...] 374. Wank. 375. Wank the crank. |