Talk:have a wank

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Keep, it's non-obvious that "have" can be used in this way. For example, one's wouldn't say "have a masturbation". Kappa 11:52, 21 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Keep - how else are we Americans supposed to learn what the heck you're talking about on the other side of the pond? --Connel MacKenzie T C 15:32, 21 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Or rather, restore. --Connel MacKenzie T C 15:33, 21 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. This is just one of the normal functions of to have and should be covered there. The same as in have a shit, have a piss, have a shower, have a break, have a smoko - equivalent to the US take a ... but with a non-matching set of objects. — Hippietrail 22:29, 24 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- You say "non-matching"...that makes them idiomatic, right? --Connel MacKenzie T C 16:05, 25 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  I'd take the stance that this makes these uses of have and take idiomatic. These are members of a class often labelled key words because they have so many senses and uses. — Hippietrail 21:11, 25 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

This is apples and oranges. have a wank passes the fancy dress test, have a smoke passes the fried egg test, have a shower potentially passes the Egyptian pyramid test, and "have a break" passes none of them. Davilla 20:56, 25 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. I have a multilingual gut feeling that they are very much worth including, as the terms mentioned by Hippietrail pretty much all take a different verb in Dutch, and probably in other languages as well. —Vildricianus 16:57, 25 May 2006 (U T C)

RFD discussion: June 2022–May 2023[edit]

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~~have a wank~~

(vulgar slang, intransitive, usually of a man) to masturbate.

SOP: have (“to undertake or perform”) + a wank (“an act of masturbation”). Theknightwho (talk) 00:53, 15 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Make sure it's listed in Appendix:DoHaveMakeTake and then hard-redirect to the bare noun.—msh210℠ (talk) 10:21, 15 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Support msh210's suggestion. - excarnateSojourner (talk | contrib) 04:08, 24 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Keep as a synonym of masturbate. Do not redirect to appendix; an appendix is unwieldy for lexicographical information. The entry does no harm and directs the reader to Thesaurus:masturbate for synonyms, and to masturbate for translations; no benefit in doing the same, just outside of the mainspace. The appendix even goes so far as to explain differences between various have an X and take an X forms from the same noun, absurd given the same information should and could be in the mainspace. The idea things are made better by moving information from the discoverable and specific-item-linkable mainspace to the less discoverable appendix space seems rather unconvincing. Label "sum of parts" if you must. Kept in RFD in 2006 by consensus per Talk:have a wank. --Dan Polansky (talk) 08:18, 24 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Delete (with no objection to a redirect) - none of the above rant seems to refute the fact that this is SOP. * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 23:37, 20 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Redirected. - TheDaveRoss 13:29, 26 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]