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wangst

noun
/wæŋkst/

Etymology

Blend of wank + angst.

  1. derived from *angustiz✻
  2. derived from angust
  3. derived from angest
  4. borrowed from angst
  5. borrowed from Angst
  6. compounded as wangst — “wank + angst”

Definitions

  1. Self-indulgent anxiety.

    • And yes, on one level I accept that I was being a total dick – an ugly combo of Art Student ennui and “I'm so Goth I shit bats' pseudo-teenage wangst.
    • Like some kind of Tim Burtonesque fever dream with a touch more wangst and a smidge less whimsy, Smoke & Mirrors is rollicking, intimate circus-cabaret that will charm your long stripy stockings right off and leave you gagging for more.
    • I drew back from the brink of the impending wangst storm, though, because I know very well that neither Kaoren nor Tsur Selkie are stupid, and Kaoren faking a romance with me would be idiocy.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for wangst. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA