# Definition of "Wazzick"? "Wozzuk"? (idk spelling) British term

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [March 21, 2016, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/definition-of-wazzick-wozzuk-idk-spelling-british-term/749718 "2016-03-21T00:42:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![WotNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e19b73/32.png) [@WotNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WotNot)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2016, 9:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/definition-of-wazzick-wozzuk-idk-spelling-british-term/749718/41 "2016-03-25T09:00:44Z")

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> [@gigi](#):
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> But are you a real Englishman?

I am true Englishman, but not a true Scotsman.

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**Author:** ![Martini\_Enfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/martini_enfield/32/11123_2.png) [@Martini\_Enfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martini_Enfield)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2016, 9:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/definition-of-wazzick-wozzuk-idk-spelling-british-term/749718/42 "2016-03-25T09:08:51Z")

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> [@UDS](#):
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> The sense which refers to actual masturbation is definitely the secondary sense, in terms of frequency of use.

And you’ve never say someone engaged in the act of masturbation was a “wanker”; You’d say they were “having a wank”.

Of course, “having a wank” can also, in some contexts, mean engaging in some self-satisfying and self-indulgent activity that has nothing to do with masturbation - for example, an artist making/displaying a particularly pretentious piece of work which is clearly intended to show just how very clever they think they are.

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**Author:** ![PatrickLondon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/patricklondon/32/4422_2.png) [@PatrickLondon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatrickLondon)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2016, 12:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/definition-of-wazzick-wozzuk-idk-spelling-british-term/749718/43 "2016-03-25T12:21:25Z")

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> [@CC](#):
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> Wozzeck is a character in an opera of the same name. He’s a hapless character whose wife cuckolds him with Wozzeck’s superior officer in the army. He can’t get his life together and becomes a laughing stock in his village for his ineptness. It may be that the MP was using his name as a reference to an inept character, e.g. Trump.

I think you may be sure that the number of MPs familiar with the works of Büchner and Alban Berg are not enough for such a usage to have any meaning at all (let alone effect) in parliamentary debate.

“Wazzock” is just one of many satisfying sounds vaguely indicating something less than intellectual and aesthetic excellence. Possibly there’s some distant mental association with “whiz” in the sense of yet another slang term for peeing, but I doubt very much if there’s any etymological logic behind it, or behind “plonker”, “twonk” and other such words.

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**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\
**Post date:** [March 26, 2016, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/definition-of-wazzick-wozzuk-idk-spelling-british-term/749718/44 "2016-03-26T18:47:29Z")

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> [@WotNot](#):
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> I am true Englishman, but not a true Scotsman.

Screwed up the joke, darn it. ::kicks dirt, muttering

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