wankerish

English

Etymology

From wanker +‎ -ish.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

wankerish (comparative more wankerish, superlative most wankerish)

1. (slang, vulgar, UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) Like a wanker (obnoxious person).
   • 1994, Edward Farrell Marsicano, No satisfaction: and, The happy time, page 67:

     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.

   • 2008, Dhivan Thomas Jones, Green Eros, page 176:

     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.