English Explanatory Dictionary

wazzock

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A stupid or annoying person.

Pronunciation

/ˈwazək/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-wazzock.wav

Word forms

wazzock wazzocks

Etymology

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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