Gardner, Bill (30 January 2015). "Boris Johnson: Porn-obsessed Isil jihadis are 'literally w***ers' ". Daily Telegraph. London. Archived from the original on 12 January 2022 . Retrieved 30 January 2015. During a live radio debate on 28 May 2010, the future President of Ireland, Michael D. Higgins, urged conservative American radio host Michael Graham to "be proud to be a decent American rather than being just a wanker whipping up fear." [21] [22] On the British television quiz show Countdown, contestants have to form the longest word possible from nine randomly selected letters. On one occasion, the letters permitted the spelling of "wanker" (or "wankers") and both contestants replied with the word, leading one to quip "we've got a pair of wankers". The sequence was edited out of the show (as is common with risqué words), but has been shown as an outtake on other shows. [16] However, on a later occasion, "wanker" was offered, and this instance was left in and broadcast unedited. In December 2000, the Advertising Standards Authority published research on attitudes of the British public to pejoratives. It ranked wanker as the fourth most severe pejorative in English. [8] The BBC describes it as "moderately offensive" and "almost certain" to generate complaints if used before the watershed. [9] The comedy show Mork & Mindy featured a character named Mr. Wanker who was Mindy's landlord. [18] This was broadcast on American TV and later British TV.

Related are terms such as "wanker's colic", for an undiagnosed visceral pain, and "wanker's doom", for excessive masturbation, from slang used in the RAF and British prisons since the 1920s. [2] Differences in perceived levels of offensiveness The Winker's Song (Misprint)" by Ivor Biggun is one of many songs about masturbation. It describes the singer: "I'm a wanker, I'm a wanker. And it does me good like it bloody well should", and it reached number 22 in the 1978 UK charts. It was banned by BBC Radio 1 and every national radio and television service. [13] This article is about the pejorative term. For other uses, see Wanker (disambiguation). Not to be confused with Wanka (disambiguation). In January 2015 the then Mayor of London Boris Johnson described British-born jihadists as "pornography-obsessed inadequates who only turn to radical Islam when they fail to make it with girls...They are literally wankers". [26] Tony McEnery, 2005, Swearing in English: Bad Language, Purity and Power from 1586 to the Present, Routledge, ISBN 0-415-25837-5.On the American television show Married... with Children, Peggy Bundy's maiden name is Wanker and her family is from the fictional Wanker County. Karen Stollznow, 2004. Whinger! Wowser! Wanker! Aussie English: Deprecatory language and the Australian ethos. In Christo Moskovsky (ed), Proceedings of the 2003 Conference of the Australian Linguistic Society

Rude Hand Gestures of the World: A Guide to Offending Without Words. Lefevre, Romana. Chronicle Books, 17 August 2011 Tangerine (Media notes). Vixen. United States and United Kingdom: CMC International; Eagle Records. 1998. {{ cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) ( link) Mary Cresswell, an American etymologist, describes "wanker" as "somewhat more offensive in British use than Americans typically realize". [11] The word was used twice to comic effect in The Simpsons episode " Trash of the Titans", which caused no offence to American audiences, but prompted complaints on occasions when the episode was broadcast unedited in the United Kingdom. [12] In popular culture

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Dowell, Ben (9 June 2008). "The Simpsons: Channel 4 apologises for pre-watershed swearing". The Guardian. London . Retrieved 9 June 2008. Phil Collins used the word in his 1984 cameo appearance on Miami Vice and has sometimes been credited with introducing the word to America. [14] The terms wank and wanker originated in British slang during the late 19th and early 20th century. [2] [3] In modern usage, it is usually a general term of contempt rather than a commentary on sexual habits. Wanker has similar meanings and overtones to American pejoratives like jerk or jerk-off. [4] More generally, wanker can carry suggestions of egotistical and self-indulgent behaviour and this is the dominant meaning in Australia and New Zealand. [5] Jenny Cheshire, 1991, English Around the World: sociolinguistic perspectives, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0-521-39565-8.

When acting as the ombudsman on Red Eye w/Greg Gutfeld in 2011, Mike Baker presented a graph of the "wanker gap" for the first half of the program. [23] Baker has never given an explanation of the meaning of the "wanker gap." In February 2009, U2 member Bono called Chris Martin a wanker live on air during Jo Whiley's Radio 1 show. [20] Wanker is slang for "one who wanks ( masturbates)", but is most often used as a general insult. It is a pejorative term of English origin common in Britain and other parts of the English-speaking world (mainly Commonwealth nations), including Ireland, Australia and New Zealand. It is synonymous with the insult tosser. [1] Meaning "Wanker" hand gesture Michael Graham v Michael D." Newstalk.ie. 28 May 2010. 15 min 25 sec. Archived from the original on 27 February 2012.