beeble
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dreamerdreaming wrote: Oh. I see, thanks. In that film (or anyone from the UK please feel free to chime in about how it is used there): Is it meant to be specific to jerking off to the computer, or is it just in reference to any kind of masturbation, or is it used a derogatory term in the way the OP says she calls someone a "jack"? OK. To `wank' is to masturbate. So, literally, a wanker is somebody who masturbates a lot, or who is somehow defined or characterized by their masturbation. The use of the term `wanker' here on CM usually denotes somebody whose only interest in BDSM is as fodder for his masturbatory fantasies, somebody who may well be wanking while looking at pretty Dommes' profiles. The usual British meaning of the term `wanker' is figurative. A wanker is just a generally contemptible person, a moron, a jerk. (`Jerk' is, itself, a figurative use.) If a British person, in ordinary life, points and says, `Look at that wanker over there', they're more likely to be pointing at somebody doing something stupid in their car or making a fool of themself, than pointing at somebody who's masturbating. The use in Trainspotting is this figurative use. beeble.
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