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  • adjective vulgar Like a wanker (obnoxious person).

Etymologies

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wanker +‎ -ish

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Examples

  • I warned my friends that I was going to write a kind of wankerish post on this, so here goes.

    Piracy Supports Terrorism | ATTACKERMAN 2009

  • It all sounds very wankerish, but it was excellent fun.

    Whisky lili 2009

  • Conceding defeat, the former Harrow councillor was typically wankerish in his words, saying:

    Whatever The Outcome, We are Always There. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2010

  • It all sounds very wankerish, but it was excellent fun.

    Archive 2009-09-01 lili 2009

  • Hunting with beaters: a quintessentially wankerish activity.

    Bloom County on the endangered liberal « raincoaster 2006

  • Fred Meyer and QFC are wankers, and Safeway is slightly less wankerish, but still annoying.

    Archive 2004-04-18 2004

  • As well as taking a crack at the "pale, flabby" people he assumes are food bloggers with their "wankerish little digicameras", he continues, in trademark fashion, "I think photographing one's food in a restaurant is easily as rude, disrespectful and brutish as … dropping one's trousers in the middle of the room and taking a massive dump". getting his bowels in such a twist.

    Life and style | guardian.co.uk Marina O'Loughlin 2010

  • Someone doesn't like "food bloggers with their wankerish little digicameras"!

    "BANPC" via James Bow in Google Reader 2010

  • The Fragile's most elegant zeniths - "La Mer" and "Just Like You Imagined" - the songs scrape and lull, spanning toothy pop (Track 16); droning interludes (2); Eighties homages (24); the wankerish, disposable digital noise from the remix albums (7); and mostly, cinematic scenes that turn your earbuds into a personal transport system to charred landscapes beneath a gray sky.

    Miami New Times | Complete Issue 2009

  • You can't be cutting edge when your ideas are dull and The Osbournes now downwardly define dullardry and their overuse of the f-bomb is now tired and wankerish.

    Urban Semiotic 2009

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