Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To masturbate. Often used with off.
- n. An act of masturbation.
- n. A detestable person.
Wiktionary
- v. intransitive, vulgar To masturbate.
- v. transitive, vulgar To masturbate; to give a hand job to.
- v. intransitive (chiefly fandom slang and Internet slang) To engage in wank.
- n. slang An act of masturbation.
- n. slang, pejorative An undesirable person
- n. slang Nonsense, rubbish.
- n. Ridiculous, circular or inappropriately elaborate argument about something, especially if obnoxious, pretentious or outright unsubstantial.
WordNet 3.0
- n. slang for masturbation
- v. get sexual gratification through self-stimulation
Etymologies
- Origin unknown. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“My comments don't refer to the wank directly it's *wank*, but are about free speech and online communities in general:”
“The trouble with all this carbon footprint wank is that China and India will take absolutely no notice whatsoever of any green measures.”
“And there’s obviously an American demographic for whom the combination of ‘Israeli’, ‘female’ and ‘trained to shoot an assault rifle’ is the ultimate in wank-fodder. soullite Says:”
“By time I get dress I go down stairs and look at my cellphone and notice I have 30 minutes to eat breakfast and leave out. having a wank is a great way to start the day”
“For those not in on Britspeak, to wank is to jerk off.”
“After the automated wank, which is always in clear English you are invited to press a key to speak to someone about their product.”
“Yeah, this 'wank' as they call it has gotten out of hand.”
“The real general decided to "wank" it in his armchair today, or what?”
“Can the word "wank" repeated 1000 times count as just one word?”
"Read Bono's column and, in 20 words or less, explain its theme."
“We're not close and the alliance is just a politicians 'wank' as most here see it.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘wank’.
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MANY A WORD!
This is just a list, right, that I'm gonna, like, fill with words, that, like, are every word that I can, like, think of with, ahhmm, my brain.
and, able, art, ass, algebra, amp, ankle, booze, bong, aura, bling, bright and 134 more...
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EN-HU - important words for a HU inte...
Words only (I left out the expressions) from Geza Kerenyi's EN-HU interpreters' dictionary. Most of them pose some difficulty when interpreted between HU and EN in either or both directions.
abalone, abrasive, abstractionist, abstruse, abysmal, academia, accessibility, accessible, acclimate, accolade, accompanist, achiever and 1469 more...
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Words sung by: Belle and Sebastian
beguiling, herbaceous, peninsula, suffragette, damascan, hastening, berserk, overtime, leccy, bestow, swathe, arab strap and 193 more...
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Fandom words
Words that have meaning (or new meaning) because of fandom.
slash, het, drabble, canon, ship, spoiler, wank, lemon, bnf, weeaboo, woobie, fanon and 2 more...
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Twitter favourites
The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favourite word" and adds it to this list.
See also:
thunderfuck, incredible, merp, sara, flopparoo, smother, fugly, buer, plum, canny, nefelibata, cuntbucket and 1972 more... -
colleen's words
yellow, green, pie, blue, fur, people, incense, book, brown, avuncular, mountain, fog and 1316 more...
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Reading Reading
Words from the works of Peter Reading - at least one from each (except the Schwitters-esque erosions, cut-ups etc).
overbright, pimpled, muskiness, effuse, stoup, maul, unlevel, viscid, perfidious, glibly, aloes, drouth and 449 more...
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sexual feelings
words describing the sexual parts of life
snog, shag, copulate, intercourse, paraphilia, carnal, fetish, fornicate, abstinence, foreplay, coitus, chastity and 119 more...
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the physical experience
wank, snog, tendon, sinew, sauce shelf, pet, arse, astigmatism, bisexual, brassiere, breast, climax and 186 more...
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Place Names Of Distinction
These are all names of real places. The focus is on towns, mountains, rivers etc. but I will consider streets. Streets are even wackier so if there's enough good'uns ... yep, another list :-)
malino, yoshkar-ola, cae onan, krakatoa, gulfoss, perusia, camooweal, manangatang, utopia, bastardo, condom, zumstein and 324 more...
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MacBean's Words
verisimilitude, antediluvian, schadenfreude, eviscerate, exsanguinate, onomatopoeia, aesthetic, apocryphal, aubergine, byronic, brouhaha, bordello and 523 more...
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the smut-list
celibacy, rubber, coitus, foreplay, phallus, bukkake, cunnilingus, frottage, bugger, erotica, condom, booby and 63 more...
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a fan's dictionary
fanon, canon, trekkie, trekker, browncoat, shipping, het, slash, femslash, smut, gen, mary sue and 45 more...
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Aliesier's list
floccinaucinihili..., epic, schadenfreude, bissextile, firmament, egregious, gound, fop, sanguine, conformation, temperament, lacerate and 26 more...
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online
glomp, squeee, attribute!character, ship, shipper, fic, badfic, crackfic, songfic, doujinshi, fanart, shrine and 55 more...
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The Horizontal Hula
Words relating to everyone's favorite activity.
tup, frottage, wank, snog, callypigian, concupiscent, turgid, priapism, dalliance, conjugal, nee, coitus interruptus and 18 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for wank.
bilby Captain America. Sep 23, 2009
yarb Down the old Monkey House there is a Cercopithecus wanking
and a baboon (with its thumb stuck up its arse) to revile.
- Peter Reading, Ukulele Music, 1985 May 30, 2009
john “Some publishers insist that consumers will pay for quality, which is perhaps the most idiotic thing I've ever heard. If that were true then, when Sirius satellite radio launched in the US, instead of poaching Howard Stern to lure over paid listeners, they'd have hired Charlie Rose to read out Proust. Meanwhile, the idea that people will pay for quality news or investigative journalism is simply the stuff of journalism professors' wank fantasies.�?
The Guardian, Viva la app app revolution!, by Paul Carr, March 25, 2009 Apr 1, 2009
Prolagus Strapped to the table with suits from the shelter shop
Comic celebrity takes a back seat as the cigarette catches
And sets off the smoke alarm
What do you make of the cool set in London?
You're constantly updating your hit parade of your ten biggest wanks.
(She's a waitress and she's got style
Sunday bathtime could take a while)
(The boy with the Arab strap, by Belle and Sebastian) Nov 12, 2008
srkrause When I was a very young adult I had a friend whose hobby was "collecting" slang terms for this particular activity (NOT the mountain). He never wrote them down, just remembered hundreds of them. Linguists contend that what really matters in a culture will have many words to describe it in all its fascinating details and variations. Money, snow (for Eskimos and Aleuts, etc. I don't recall his relationship status at the time. But one can safely assume that he was never totally without companionship and some degree of comfort. Mar 3, 2008
bilby A mountain in Bavaria, Germany. If you would like to see the webcam images, err, presumably from the live Wank-cam, click here.
Jan 1, 2008