wankery
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
1
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "The core band, meanwhile, had clearly honed their chops well on stage; Ashton's lead guitar work avoids both wankery and simplicity […]"
- "Their visas entailed bribes and a certain amount of bureaucratic wankery, but were approved quickly enough."
- "There are moments of static beauty, haunting sparseness, and pointless wankery, sometimes all in the same tune."
- "Sub Pop was different, they were arty and more into darker, weirder stuff like Big Black. K was pretty much the opposite of that kind of macho wankery."
Etymology
Etymology tree English wank Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -ārius Old French -ier Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós Proto-Italic *-ijos Proto-Italic *-ios Old Latin -ios Latin -ius Latin -ia Old French -ie Old French -eriebor. Middle English -erie English -ery English wankery From wank + -ery.
Usage
- British usage
- Slang
- Uncountable