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English
Etymology
Origin unknown. First known use as a verb is 1905, as a noun 1948. Perhaps compare regional slang term wang, whang (“to whack or beat”). Compare Dutch wanken (“to move back and forth; move with the hands”).
Pronunciation
Verb
wank (third-person singular simple present wanks, present participle wanking, simple past and past participle wanked) (UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand)
- (intransitive, slang, vulgar) To masturbate.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:masturbate
I was so embarrassed when my mother caught me wanking.
- (transitive, slang, vulgar) To masturbate; to give a hand job to.
- Synonym: masturbate
She wanked me in the morning.
- (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
Translations
intransitive: to masturbate
- Afrikaans: skommel
- Armenian: ժաժ տալ (žaž tal)
- Bulgarian: мастурбирам (masturbiram)
- Catalan: masturbar-se (ca), fer-se una palla (ca), cascar-se-la (ca), pelar-se-la (ca)
- Dutch: rukken (nl) (vulgar), zich aftrekken (nl), masturberen (nl) (not vulgar)
- Estonian: please add this translation if you can
- Finnish: runkata (fi), vetää käteen (fi), vemputtaa (fi)
- French: se branler (fr)
- Galician: cascar
- Georgian: ანძრევს (anʒrevs)
- German: wichsen (de)
- Greek: αυνανίζομαι (el) (avnanízomai), (informal) μαλακίζομαι (el) (malakízomai)
- Hungarian: hokizik (hu), kiveri
- Italian: masturbarsi (it), farsi una sega (it)
- Japanese: 抜く (ja) (ぬく, nuku)
- Javanese: ngocok
- Latvian: please add this translation if you can
- Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
- Macedonian: дрка (drka), удира чакија (udira čakija)
- Norwegian: runke (no), onanere, masturbere
- Polish: masturbować się (pl)
- Portuguese: bater punheta (pt), tocar punheta, masturbar-se
- Romanian: face labă
- Russian: онани́ровать (ru) impf (onanírovatʹ), мастурби́ровать (ru) impf (masturbírovatʹ), дрочи́ть (ru) impf (dročítʹ) (slang)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: дркати, издркати, онанисати, мастурбирати
- Roman: drkati (sh), izdrkati, onanisati, masturbirati (sh)
- Slovene: dŕkati
- Spanish: masturbarse (es), cascársela (es), pajearse (es), hacerse la/una paja (es), pelársela, (Mexico) chaquetearse (es), hacerse una puñeta, jalársela
- Swedish: runka (sv)
- Turkish: otuz bir çekmek (tr)
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transitive: to masturbate (oneself)
- Bulgarian: онанирам (onaniram)
- Catalan: fer una palla (ca), cascar (ca), pelar (ca), masturbarse
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 手淫 (zh) (shǒuyín)
- Dutch: aftrekken (nl)
- Finnish: runkata (fi), vemputtaa (fi)
- French: branler (fr)
- Galician: cascar
- Georgian: დაუნძრევს (daunʒrevs)
- German: wichsen (de), masturbieren (de)
- Greek: αυνανίζω (avnanízo), (informal) μαλακίζω (malakízo)
- Hungarian: kiveri neki
- Italian: masturbare (it), fare una sega (it)
- Japanese: 抜く (ja) (ぬく, nuku)
- Macedonian: дрка (drka), удира чакија (udira čakija)
- Norwegian: runke (no)
- Polish: walić konia (pl), masturbować (pl)
- Portuguese: masturbar (pt)
- Russian: дрочи́ть (ru) impf (dročítʹ) (slang)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: дркати, издркати, онанисати
- Roman: drkati (sh), izdrkati, onanisati
- Slovene: dŕkati
- Spanish: pajearse (es), cascársela (es), hacerse la/una paja (es), pelársela, (Mexico) chaquetearse (es), hacerse una puñeta, masturbarse (es)
- Swedish: runka av
- Turkish: otuz bir çekmek (tr)
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Noun
wank (countable and uncountable, plural wanks) (UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand)
- (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, 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, 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
Translations
act of masturbation
- Catalan: masturbació (ca) f, palla (ca) f
- Finnish: runkkaus (fi), runkku (fi), runkki, omakiva
- French: branlage f, branlette (fr) f
- German: Selbstbefriedigung (de) f, Onanieren n
- Greek: αυνανισμός (el) m (avnanismós), μαλακία (el) f (malakía)
- Hungarian: hokizás, maszti
- Indonesian: coli (id), cokil (less vulgar)
- Italian: masturbazione (it) f, sega (it) f
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: runk m, håndjager m
- Nynorsk: runk m
- Polish: walenie konia n, masturbacja (pl) f
- Portuguese: masturbação (pt) f, punheta (pt) f
- Romanian: labă (ro)
- Russian: дрочка (ru) (dročka)
- Sami:
- Inari: ruŋkkam
- Northern: ruŋken
- Skolt: ruŋkkjummuš
- Slovene: drkanje n
- Spanish: masturbación (es) f, paja (es) f, puñeta f
- Swedish: runk (sv) c
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References
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Pronunciation
Verb
wank
- singular imperative of wanken
- (colloquial) first-person singular present of wanken