Wankery
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Wankery is a noun meaning (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, slang, vulgar) Unnecessary or pretentious noodling (messing around).
Meaning
(UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, slang, vulgar) Unnecessary or pretentious noodling (messing around).
Example Sentences
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.
The core band, meanwhile, had clearly honed their chops well on stage; Ashton's lead guitar work avoids both wankery and simplicity […]
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.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include wank, wankfart, fuckwittery, arsewash, wonga, winge.
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