wanky
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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Aviation police chief Jack Wanky confirmed that the threat was sent at around 8 a.m.
From Reuters
After asking for advice on how best to describe her multiple “characters”, as she calls them, I had dismissed my suggestions as too “wanky”, too earnest.
From The Guardian
“That sounds a bit wanky, but what I mean is, you’ve got to focus on not falling off, there and then. I find it really hard not to think about work and life and all those things. The wall is the one place where you don’t even have to try to switch off. You’re just there.”
From The Guardian
When Ricamora was young, pop culture depictions of Asian men and boys were often the likes of Long Duk Dong in "Sixteen Candles," uttering lines like, "No more yanky my wanky."
From Los Angeles Times
Yet much every last cover is preferable to the blippy garbage original, even the wanky Shins one.
From Golf Digest
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