# Origin of "wang" as slang for your dick?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [July 7, 2006, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/origin-of-wang-as-slang-for-your-dick/363571 "2006-07-07T23:02:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![Frylock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@Frylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frylock)\
**Post date:** [July 7, 2006, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/origin-of-wang-as-slang-for-your-dick/363571/1 "2006-07-07T23:02:25Z")

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As the title asks…

-FrL-

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**Author:** ![ltfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ea924/32.png) [@ltfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ltfire)\
**Post date:** [July 7, 2006, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/origin-of-wang-as-slang-for-your-dick/363571/2 "2006-07-07T23:22:09Z")

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Join this thread…

> **[Origin of "dick" as slang for your wang?](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=378690)**
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> Can anyone tell me how/when dick came to be slang for penis? Yes, this is the stuff that occurs to my coworkers on a slow Friday…

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**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\
**Post date:** [July 7, 2006, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/origin-of-wang-as-slang-for-your-dick/363571/3 "2006-07-07T23:43:47Z")

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As always, start with the Online Etymology Dictionary:

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> “penis,” 1933, slang, probably from whangdoodle, an earlier term for “gadget, thing for which the correct name is not known.” Many such words (thingy, dingus, etc.) have been used in slang for “penis,” not because the actual name was unknown, but because it was unmentionable. Another possibility is that the slang word is a variant of whang “large, thick slice” (1634), which earlier was used in the sense of “thong” (1536) and is itself a variant of thwang, an alternat form of thong (see thong).

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**Author:** ![ouryL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ouryl/32/6067_2.png) [@ouryL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ouryL)\
**Post date:** [July 8, 2006, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/origin-of-wang-as-slang-for-your-dick/363571/4 "2006-07-08T00:19:52Z")

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Short(snic!) for tallywacker.

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**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\
**Post date:** [July 8, 2006, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/origin-of-wang-as-slang-for-your-dick/363571/5 "2006-07-08T14:15:52Z")

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Paraphasing Stephen King, circa 1985: I just got my first word processer. It’s a big Wang, and keep your smart comments to yourself, buddy.

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**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\
**Post date:** [July 8, 2006, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/origin-of-wang-as-slang-for-your-dick/363571/6 "2006-07-08T14:51:28Z")

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> [@Annie-Xmas](#):
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> Paraphasing Stephen King, circa 1985: I just got my first word processer. It’s a big Wang, and keep your smart comments to yourself, buddy.

“I spent all last night pounding on my Wang…”