Wankerとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• w****r, w**ker (bowdlerized)
• w⚓ (internet slang)
• w-anchor (euphemism)

語源 1

From wank +‎ -er.

発音

• IPA: /ˈwæŋkə(ɹ)/
• 韻: -æŋkə(ɹ)

Homophone: Huanca (for non-rhotic speakers)

名詞

wanker (plural wankers) (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, slang, vulgar)

1. (derogatory) Someone who wanks; masturbates.
2. (derogatory) A term of abuse.
   1. An idiot, a stupid person.
   2. An annoying person.
   3. An ineffectual person.
   4. Someone who shows off too much, a poser or poseur; someone who is overly self-satisfied.

      Hyponyms: wanksta, wankster

3. A penis.
   • 2019 April 16, Skye Smith, The Pistoleer - Lyme 1644: Novel Nine of the Series by Skye Smith, Skye Smith, →ISBN:

     He walked closer to the trees and then pulled out his wanker and took a piss. While he was watering a clump of grass he called out calmly to the men in the trees, "We've come in peace to recruit men for our companies of dragoons."

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:wanker.
4. (humorous) A very informal term of address used between friends.

使用する際の注意点

• Refers mainly to males. A study by several British broadcasting organizations in 2000 found that wanker was the fourth most offensive word in the UK (after cunt, motherfucker, and fuck).

同意語

• (person who wanks): tosser, masturbator, onanist, pickle tickler, fingerer, w-anchor
• (idiot):
  • (Australian) drongo, dropkick, flog, fuckwit, whacker
  • (UK, Ireland) tosspot, tosser, bawbag, knobber, knobhead, dickhead
  • (US) jerk, jerkoff, jagoff

派生語

• wankerdom
• wankerish
• wank off
• merchant banker (Rhyming slang often contracted as in He is a right merchant)

語源 2

UK 1890s. From stwanker, from stinker. Used at Felsted School, Essex.

名詞

wanker (plural wankers)

1. (obsolete, British, school slang) A salted, and lightly smoked herring or mackerel; a bloater.
   • 1892 October, The Felstedian, page 105:

     My name it is "wanker";
     a leaner or lanker,
     Salter or ranker,
     fish never swam.

   • 1897 June, The Felstedian, page 100:

     He sniffs. "'Eugh, wankers again."

参照

• Farmer, John Stephen (1900), The Public School Word-Book‎, London: Hirshfeld Brothers, page 217

アナグラム

• Newark, Warnke