Meaning

1 senses
  1. (Ireland, Northern England, UK, derogatory, slang)A stupid or annoying person.

Examples

2 sentences
  1. Tom is such a wazzock.

    deTom ist so ein Blödmann.

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  2. "You're a wazzock!" "Takes one to know one."

    de„Du bist doof!“ – „‚Selber, selber‘, lachen alle Kälber!“

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Origin

Possibly from wiseacre, influenced by pillock, or possibly wazz + -ock. First attested in

Possibly from wiseacre, influenced by pillock, or possibly wazz + -ock. First attested in the 1984 novel When the Martians Land in Huddersfield by Mike Harding. Harding (born 1944) later claimed that he "used it when I was a kid,” it being “fairly common in the north, in Lancashire and Yorkshire”, and suggested that the term came from the instrument used to fling a monarch's excrement out the window.

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Forms

plural: wazzocks
Singularwazzock
Pluralwazzocks

regular

Word family

1 related words
Derivedtwazzock

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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