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wankerish en · ADJ

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Etymology

From wanker + -ish.

Meanings

1. (Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, slang, vulgar) Like a wanker (obnoxious person).
   • Caroline underlines her copy with the Bic pen she always carries along with her sketching pencils. And I told her that was a wankerish thing to do, but she keeps right on doing it even in public. 1994, Edward Farrell Marsicano, No satisfaction: and, The happy time, page 67:
   • But I wasn't sorry to prod him a bit; his preciousness about the grind of years, or the loss of youth, was sometimes as wankerish as his arrogance. 2008, Dhivan Thomas Jones, Green Eros, page 176:

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