What's the difference between waker and wanker?

Waker


Definition:

  • (n.) One who wakes.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The new core ability here – equivalent to Ocarina of Time 's temporal shifting or Wind Waker 's control of gales – is turning 2D, walking against walls or through cracks.
  • (2) "Bananafish" was the first of the stories to feature the Glass family, two retired vaudeville performers and their seven precocious children: Seymour, Buddy, Boo Boo, Walt, Waker, Zooey and Franny.
  • (3) Parents of wakers were positive about both the support they had received and the booklet.
  • (4) The beautiful, stylistic fighter Bayonetta 2 , a console exclusive, was particularly eye-catching, as was Zelda: The Wind Waker but perhaps most intriguing was The Wonderful 101 , a lovely kid-friendly title in which a troupe of miniature superheroes fight evil by combining to form themselves into tools and weapons.
  • (5) Mothers of night wakers showed higher levels of distress than those in the sleeping group.

Wanker


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Five minutes from time a fat red shirt stalked past making the tosser sign and, for emphasis, yelling: "Fucking wankers!"
  • (2) Disclosure of the arrest, which came after Hilton shouted "wanker" at train staff when he failed to produce his ticket on time, comes days after the leaking of emails he sent to Tory MPs.
  • (3) I am satisfied he helped to prevent Mr Sylla entering the carriage,” said Branston, adding that he also made “a wanker sign” toward the Frenchman.
  • (4) Thinking it was quite a lark we joined in and the ensuing 10-minute interval on the hallowed turf was a carnival atmosphere with much fun had by all, the highlight being the conga lines dancing to the chant of 'Bulstrode is a wanker'.
  • (5) The federal agriculture minister, Barnaby Joyce, has asked the broadcast watchdog to investigate outspoken radio host Kyle Sandilands for calling him a “wanker” and other insults on air.
  • (6) In EastEnders up to 10 years ago, when he was running it, "language was much more brutal, characters used words such as 'git', 'bloody', 'wanker', which are now no longer acceptable".
  • (7) It's a wanker, basically, but an advanced one; one you "feed" using a smartphone app that lets you design custom-built sandwiches according to its whims.
  • (8) The favourite phrase I used to get whenever I went to Liverpool – as soon as I got off a train or out of my car – was: ‘Hey, Bob, tell that Tony Wilson he’s a wanker.’ I must have had that delivered to me thousands of times.
  • (9) Then his daughter kept things ticking over by retweeting a comment on his critics: "Hello to the bunch of wankers that come from the proletariat and only criticize those they envy".
  • (10) I'd say: 'Why are you acting like a complete wanker?'
  • (11) Wankers," I said, fingering my cup, wondering if that was what the clay wrangler wanted me to say.
  • (12) He's already telling me what a wanker I am, and he's clearly not going to leave.
  • (13) Ian Hislop , a team captain on Have I Got News For You, declined to join a host of high-profile figures in signing a public letter warning against cuts to the BBC to avoid appearing to be an “overpaid wanker”, he has revealed.
  • (14) He then reportedly started shouting "wanker" and was arrested and taken to the New Street's rail police station.
  • (15) He has never taken drugs, because back in the 80s, "one or two of my colleagues started acting like complete wankers.
  • (16) ‘Terrific wankerer’, ‘sadistic nurse’: Boris strikes again (and again) All of this means that our foreign secretary, Boris Johnson, cannot even hope to win awards for undiplomatic language, however often he mentions the US president’s part-Kenyan ancestry, calls the Turkish president a “terrific wankerer”, quips that the only reason he “wouldn’t visit some parts of New York is the real risk of meeting Donald Trump” or that Hillary Clinton looks like “a sadistic nurse in a mental hospital”.
  • (17) Johnny Borrell is a wanker because he's a wanker, not because Razorlight got massive."
  • (18) And sometimes, at least in public, they do really act like wankers.
  • (19) It happened today when dutifully reporting that Steve Hilton, one of the three or four most important people in David Cameron's working life, called a stroppy ticket collector at Birmingham New St station a "wanker."
  • (20) "Because we've spent so many evenings and weekends writing together, the fact that we can now do that during the day feels very precious," says Gonzalez, who then catches himself and says: "I sound like a complete wanker."

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