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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Origin unknown.[1] First known use as a verb is 1905,[2] as a noun 1948.[1] Perhaps compare regional slang term wang, whang (“to whack or beat”).[2] Compare Dutch wanken (“to move back and forth; move with the hands”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]wank (third-person singular simple present wanks, present participle wanking, simple past and past participle wanked) (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth)
- (intransitive, slang, transitive, intransitive) To masturbate.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:masturbate
- I was so embarrassed when my mother caught me wanking.
- She wanked me in the morning.
- Synonym: masturbate
- (intransitive, vulgar, chiefly fandom slang and Internet slang) To argue in an inappropriate manner or about pretentious or insubstantial matters; to engage in wank.
Related terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]intransitive: to masturbate (oneself)
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transitive: to masturbate
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Noun
[edit]wank (countable and uncountable, plural wanks) (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth)
- (countable, slang, vulgar) An act of masturbation.
- Synonyms: jerk off, toss, tug, fingering; see also Thesaurus:masturbation
- He’s having a wank!
- (countable, slang, vulgar, derogatory) An undesirable person.
- You utter wank! How could you behave like that?
- (uncountable, slang, vulgar) Nonsense, rubbish.
- This opera is wank.
- Did you see that thing on Channel 4? Yeah, it was wank.
- 2000, Dylan Moran, “Cooking the Books”, in Black Books, season 1, episode 1 (television production), spoken by Fran (Tamsin Greig):
- I do sell a lot of wank, don't I?
- (uncountable, chiefly vulgar, fandom slang and Internet slang) Ridiculous, circular or inappropriately elaborate argument about something, especially if obnoxious, pretentious or unsubstantial.
- Synonym: wankery
- (countable, uncountable, fandom slang) Drama, turmoil, or disagreement within a fannish space.
- 2010, Karen Hellekson, “History, the Trace, and Fandom Wank”, in Heather Urbanski, editor, Writing and the Digital Generation: Essays on New Media Rhetoric[1], page 64:
- Sometimes those involved in the wank will attempt to steer discussion by disguising themselves with a different user name and posting their own support.
- 2011, Katherine Larsen, Lynn Zubernis, Fandom at the Crossroads: Celebration, Shame and Fan/producer Relationships[2], page 156:
- As we've seen, the wank that broke out at the very first Supernatural fan convention (Asylum) in Coventry, UK in 2007 was partly inspired by Jensen Ackles' joke about Wincest.
- 2013, "AngstGoddess", quoted in Anne Jamison, Fic: Why Fanfiction Is Taking Over the World, unknown page:
- The general mission of Twankhard was to highlight various wanks in the fandom and cultivate anon-based discussion of them.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:wank.
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]act of masturbation
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rubbish, nonsense
References
[edit]- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “wank”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 “wank, v.”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, June 2019.
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