wanker
Wanker (colloquially wankers or Wixxer ) literally means a man who masturbates , and with a similar meaning as failures as offensive swear word used for men.
The etymological origin of the term is not vulgar ; Wanker instead comes from wax and grow and described earlier the gesture of waxing, brushing soil, shoes or other objects ( Stiefelwichsen ; Wich girl for a service staff that the waxing had to take the floor, etc.).
In the coarse soldier's language of the First World War , euphemisms for male masturbation developed from the words jerking off and polishing , implicitly for failure, since cleaning (wanking) the officer's boots and / or the boots of the entire team was a popular humiliation of disciplined soldiers . The vulgar connotation has remained to this day for both polishers and wankers .
The use of the term is usually meant as an insult and is usually understood in the same way, since a change in meaning has now set in and "wanker" nowadays hardly has the meaning of "loser" (since the English word "loser", which in German as much as "loser" or "failure" means, in whose place has been stepped) rather than a synonym for "asshole", with the extremely negative connotation of a bad ("lousy") character, and can accordingly according to Paragraph 185 StGB (Insult) be punishable. Insult, however, constitutes a so-called absolute claim offense; This means that this offense will only be prosecuted in response to the offender's complaint and the complaint (in the absence of a public interest in prosecution) can also be withdrawn by the complainant.
The term appears on its own or in variations such as flat wankers or other compounds such as discomfort wankers, disco wankers, brain wankers, multicultural wankers, eco wankers or social wankers.
various
- In Georg Danzer's song The legendary Wixer-Blues from October 7th, 1976 , the "wanking" is discussed in a humorous way.
- Oba olle samma wanker is a song by the Bavarian songwriter Hans Söllner , in which the widespread use of masturbation among people and "spiritual masturbation" are discussed.
- Be a wanker is an advertising slogan of the internet company Wix.com .
literature
- Alexander Sixtus von Reden , Josef Schweikhardt : Lust and Passion around 1900 . Tosa, Vienna 2000, ISBN 3-85492-203-5 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Schimpfwort-Lexikon: Der Wichser , Frankfurter Rundschau, March 18, 2013
- ↑ Insult in traffic
- ↑ Flachwichser in Duden
- ↑ http://de.wix.com/website/seieinwixer
