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Wanked vs Winked - What's the difference?

wanked | winked |

As verbs the difference between wanked and winked

is that wanked is past tense of wank while winked is past tense of wink.

wanked

English

Verb

(head)
  • (wank)

    • Anagrams

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    wank

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (vulgar) To masturbate.
    • Most men wank over pornography.
    I was so embarrassed when my mother caught me wanking .
  • (vulgar) To masturbate; to give a hand job to.
    • She wanked me in the morning.
  • (intransitive, vulgar, chiefly, fandom, and, Internet slang) To engage in .

    • Synonyms

    * masturbate, jerk off, play with oneself, wank off, toss, toss off * masturbate * See also:

    Related terms

    * wanker * wankery * wankfest (pos n)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (slang, vulgar) An act of masturbation.
    • He’s having a wank !
  • (slang, vulgar, pejorative) An undesirable person
    • You utter wanker !
  • (slang, vulgar) Nonsense, rubbish.
    • This opera is wank .
    Did you see that thing on Channel 4? Yeah, it was wank .
    This shit is a whole lot of wank .
  • (chiefly, vulgar, fandom, and, Internet slang) Ridiculous, circular or inappropriately elaborate argument about something, especially if obnoxious, pretentious or unsubstantial.

    • Derived terms

    * fanwank * tit wank

    Synonyms

    * toss, tug, fingering * (obnoxious or pretentious argument) wankery * See also

    Anagrams

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    References

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    winked

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (wink)

    • wink

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To close one's eyes.
  • * Shakespeare
    • I will wink , so shall the day seem night.
  • * Tillotson
    • They are not blind, but they wink .
  • (archaic) To turn a blind eye.
  • *, New York Review of Books, 2001, p.51:
    • Some trot about to bear false witness, and say anything for money; and though judges know of it, yet for a bribe they wink at it, and suffer false contracts to prevail against equity.
  • * Herbert
    • And yet, as though he knew it not, / His knowledge winks , and lets his humours reign.
  • * John Locke
    • Obstinacy can not be winked at, but must be subdued.
  • (intransitive) To blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion.
    • He winked at me.
    She winked her eye.
  • To twinkle.
  • To be dim and flicker.
    • The light winks .
  • To send an indication of agreement by winking.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • An act of winking (a blinking of only one eye), or a message sent by winking.
  • A brief time; an instant.
  • A brief period of sleep; especially forty winks.
  • * 1919 ,
    • I couldn't bear to leave him where he is. I shouldn't sleep a wink for thinking of him.
  • A disc used in the game of tiddlywinks.

    • Derived terms

    * nudge nudge wink wink * wink murder