Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A curer of fish.

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Examples

  • Said Yoof wanted to piss, and so whipped his whanger out and did so, not even bothering to step over to a nearby bush.

    Wednesday Morning At Five O’Clock « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2008

  • He could kill her with a whanger the size of a birthday candle.

    You Can Blame Mike Sterling For This 2006

  • Getting past this terrible, secret fear of women which will probably cause you to live in senseless terror your entire life, because you're such a self-centered jackass that it's never occured to you that women might desire a smart, conversationally-attractive, caring man with a below-average p3nis as opposed to some fat, greasy slob like you with a whanger the size of a baseball bat

    Y Ur Pe--nis so Sm@ll?, Help Urself cheap R/x, primary melursus spoilage 2004

  • And yet my body was eager to get to the finish line; I didn't have the usual sodden, "balloon-two-days-after-the-party" erection, but a massive whanger that vibrated with enthusiasm.

    Have It Your Way shadesong 2004

  • And surely that harmony was not be found in the marriage of an English gentleman of good degree with the daughter of a dreadful low-class Spanish woman -- a girl who at fifteen years of age had prayed to the saints, used her knife as a whanger, and maintained that the sun went round the earth because mamma said so, and mamma knew!

    Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 100, April, 1876 Various

  • Thus, she ate with delicacy and held her knife nicely poised and balanced, but Leam grasped hers like a whanger, and cut off pieces of meat anyhow, which as often as not she took from the point.

    Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 097, January, 1876 Various

  • Mamma had eaten with her knife grasped also like a whanger, and why might not she? she said when madame remonstrated and gave her a lecture on the aesthetics of the table.

    Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 097, January, 1876 Various

  • Or get your whanger out and tie it into a silhouette of Ronnie Corbett and wave it at the goalie ... just bloody so something out of the ordinary, please!

    TEAMtalk Football News 2010

  • Well look, here's the thing right, women have all seen cocks before and frankly, you're more likely to be interested in your goalie's whanger than she is.

    TEAMtalk Football News 2009

  • Robberies were then of frequent occurrence in the neighbourhood of Bawtry, in Yorkshire; and one day a suspicious-looking character, whom they took to be a highwayman, made his appearance; but "John Rattray talking about powder and ball to the postboy, and showing his whanger, the fellow made off" Mrs. Calderwood started from Edinburgh on the 3rd of June, when the roads were dry and the weather was fine, and she reached London on the evening of the

    The Life of Thomas Telford Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904 1867

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  • Australian slang - a stick with a claw at the end used for throwing balls.

    December 30, 2023