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wazzock

/ˈwazək/

wazzock noun: a stupid or annoying person.

Noun

wazzock (plural wazzocks)

  1. (Ireland, Northern England, UK, derogatory, slang) A stupid or annoying person.
    • I turn, as I must, to Mr Trump. His comments about Muslims are wrong. His policy to close borders, if he is elected as President, is bonkers. If he met one or two of my constituents in one of the many excellent pubs in my constituency, they may well tell him that he is a wazzock for dealing with...2016 18 January, Victoria Atkins MP, House of Commons debate concerning Donald Trump

wazzock meaning in Tamil

wazzock in Tamil

அடி முட்டாள்

Forms of wazzock

pluralwazzocks

Origin of wazzock

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.

Words formed from wazzock

Questions about wazzock

What does wazzock mean?
Wazzock means a stupid or annoying person.
What is wazzock in Tamil?
Wazzock in Tamil is அடி முட்டாள். See Wazzock meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is wazzock?
Wazzock is a noun.
How do you pronounce wazzock?
Wazzock is pronounced /ˈwazək/ (UK).
What is the plural of wazzock?
The plural of wazzock is wazzocks.

Words near wazzock in the dictionary

  1. wazzed
  2. wazzer
  3. wazzers
  4. wazzes
  5. wazzing
  6. wazzock
  7. wazzocked
  8. wazzocks
  9. Wazzu
  10. wazzup
  11. wazīr

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Adapted from Wiktionary: wazzock (page history and authors); wazzock (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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