• Wankery

    Origin

    wank + -ery

    Full definition of wankery

    Noun

    wankery

    (uncountable)
    1. (British, slang, vulgar) Unnecessary or pretentious noodling (messing around).
      • 2002, Vladimir Bogdanov, Chris Woodstra, Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide to RockThe core band, meanwhile, had clearly honed their chops well on stage; Ashton's lead guitar work avoids both wankery and simplicity...
      • 2003, Marshall Moore, The Concrete SkyTheir visas entailed bribes and a certain amount of bureaucratic wankery, but were approved quickly enough.
      • 2003, Jim DeRogatis, Turn on Your Mind: Four Decades of Great Psychedelic RockThere are moments of static beauty, haunting sparseness, and pointless wankery, sometimes all in the same tune.
      • 2007, Everett True, Nirvana: The BiographySub 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.
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