As an example of USAsians non-use of the word until recently, I remember the (unintentional) hilarity at school when we discovered that Mork and Mindy's landlord was Arnold Wanker.
BTW 'Wanker' was originally school slang for a bloater or a derivation of 'Wonker' a useless naval cadet. The modern usage comed from 'Whanker' (military slang) and seems to have lost the h since the Second World War
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Date: 2007-07-04 07:35 pm (UTC)BTW 'Wanker' was originally school slang for a bloater or a derivation of 'Wonker' a useless naval cadet. The modern usage comed from 'Whanker' (military slang) and seems to have lost the h since the Second World War