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Cankery vs Wankery - What's the difference?

cankery | wankery |

As an adjective cankery

is like a canker.

As a noun wankery is

unnecessary or pretentious noodling (messing around).

cankery

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Like a canker.
  • Full of canker.
  • Surly; sore; malignant.
    • (Webster 1913)

    wankery

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • (British, slang, vulgar) Unnecessary]] or pretentious noodling ([[mess around, messing around).
  • * 2002 , Vladimir Bogdanov, Chris Woodstra, Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide to Rock
    • The 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 Sky
    • Their 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 Rock
    • There are moments of static beauty, haunting sparseness, and pointless wankery , sometimes all in the same tune.
  • * 2007 , Everett True, Nirvana: The Biography
    • 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 .