wank in English: A British vulgar word for touching yourself for sexual pleasure. You will meet it far more often in its other sense: "a load of wank" means worthless rubbish. Medium strength, and coarse in any room. Recognise it, do not use it. (noun)

Translation

A British vulgar word for touching yourself for sexual pleasure. You will meet it far more often in its other sense: "a load of wank" means worthless rubbish. Medium strength, and coarse in any room. Recognise it, do not use it.

Word origin

British, first written down in the early 1900s, and nobody has traced where it came from.

Origin: unknown
Root: wank

Examples

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Here it means worthless rubbish, and this is the sense you are most likely to hear.

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The excuse is nonsense and the speaker is not hiding what he thinks.

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The reaction is the lesson: too coarse for the family table.

Related words

bad

Not good; of low quality, or causing harm or trouble.

shit

The solid waste the body passes out, and one of the most common swear words in English. Said on its own when something goes wrong, and used of anything bad or worthless. Medium strength: ordinary among friends, clearly wrong at work, at school, or with people you do not know. Recognise it, do not use it.

rude

Not kind or polite; speaking or acting in a way that upsets other people.

word

A sound or group of letters that has a meaning when you say or write it.

wanker

A British insult for a man the speaker finds arrogant or contemptible. It is built from "wank" but says nothing about what the person has actually done. Medium strength, and one of the commonest insults in British speech. Recognise it, do not use it.

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