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Wanky vs Wany - What's the difference?

wanky | wany |

As adjectives the difference between wanky and wany

is that wanky is (uk|australia|new zealand|slang|vulgar) like a wanker; foolish or objectionable while wany is waning or diminished in some parts; not of uniform size throughout; said especially of sawed boards or timber cut too near the outside of the log.

wanky

English

Adjective

(er)
  • (UK, Australia, New Zealand, slang, vulgar) Like a wanker; foolish or objectionable.
  • * 2007 , Mathilde Madden, The Silver Collar
    • I do feel like a bit of a jealous wanky idiot.
  • (UK, slang, vulgar) Pretentious.
  • * 1993 , Henry Normal, Nude Modelling for the Afterlife
    • Must always have a worse time than me at parties. Must hate parties, students, arty wankers, wanky art students, parties with wanky art students.
  • * 1997 April, Jessica Hopper, , page 161,
    • Donita Sparks?s patented “I'm still dead” vocals and wanky guitar often beg to be fast forwarded (“Drama” comes off like Helmet sans pretentious time signatures), but that?s your problem. L7 are perfectly happy to rock, dress like roadies, and fall off bar stools with glee-filled abandon.
  • * 1995 , Nick Hornby, High Fidelity
    • That Leo Sayer haircut and those dungarees, and the stupid laugh and the wanky right-on politics...
  • * 2008 , Richard Flanagan, The Unknown Terrorist
    • We talked a bit — it was that wanky bar in town, the Art Bar — and first it was good, but then he got going on about justice, how there wasn't any.

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    wany

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    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Waning or diminished in some parts; not of uniform size throughout; said especially of sawed boards or timber cut too near the outside of the log.
  • Spoiled by wet; said of timber.
    • (Halliwell)
    (Webster 1913)