Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to fanwank
Participle: fanwanked
Gerund: fanwanking
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | fanwank |
| you | fanwank |
| he;she;it | fanwanks |
| we | fanwank |
| you | fanwank |
| they | fanwank |
Perfect
| I | have fanwanked |
| you | have fanwanked |
| he;she;it | has fanwanked |
| we | have fanwanked |
| you | have fanwanked |
| they | have fanwanked |
Past
| I | fanwanked |
| you | fanwanked |
| he;she;it | fanwanked |
| we | fanwanked |
| you | fanwanked |
| they | fanwanked |
Pluperfect
| I | had fanwanked |
| you | had fanwanked |
| he;she;it | had fanwanked |
| we | had fanwanked |
| you | had fanwanked |
| they | had fanwanked |
Future
| I | will fanwank |
| you | will fanwank |
| he;she;it | will fanwank |
| we | will fanwank |
| you | will fanwank |
| they | will fanwank |
Future Perfect
| I | will have fanwanked |
| you | will have fanwanked |
| he;she;it | will have fanwanked |
| we | will have fanwanked |
| you | will have fanwanked |
| they | will have fanwanked |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | fanwank |
| you | fanwank |
| he;she;it | fanwank |
| we | fanwank |
| you | fanwank |
| they | fanwank |
Perfect
| I | have fanwanked |
| you | have fanwanked |
| he;she;it | have fanwanked |
| we | have fanwanked |
| you | have fanwanked |
| they | have fanwanked |
Imperfect
| I | fanwanked |
| you | fanwanked |
| he;she;it | fanwanked |
| we | fanwanked |
| you | fanwanked |
| they | fanwanked |
Pluperfect
| I | had fanwanked |
| you | had fanwanked |
| he;she;it | had fanwanked |
| we | had fanwanked |
| you | had fanwanked |
| they | had fanwanked |
Conditional
Present
| I | would fanwank |
| you | would fanwank |
| he;she;it | would fanwank |
| we | would fanwank |
| you | would fanwank |
| they | would fanwank |
Perfect
| I | would have fanwanked |
| you | would have fanwanked |
| he;she;it | would have fanwanked |
| we | would have fanwanked |
| you | would have fanwanked |
| they | would have fanwanked |
Imperative
| you | fanwank |
| we | Let's fanwank |
| you | fanwank |
Verbs conjugated like 'fanwank'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'fanwank'
anhang,
cancan,
enrank,
fandango,
fanfare,
fantasy,
fatwa,
fatwah,
fawn,
flank,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From fan + wank. See fan (“fanatic, enthusiast”). British writer Craig Hinton claimed to have coined the term in the context of Doctor Who fandom.
Sample Sentences
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See above on Charlie's Angels. They never seemed to have lives of any sort and weren't interesting to me; they always seemed like soft porn for the guys, but a lot of girls fanwanked and fanficced them into more, so I guess they could qualify. [2005 March 9, [email protected], “Re: First Time Buffy Watcher”, in alt.tv.buffy-v-slayer (Usenet):]
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She accepts, and tell Dwight that Philip was his son all along, but she needed to know he wanted to be with her for her, and just to have a child. Which completely contradicted the DNA test Dwight took at the end of last season, and is also just a crappy thing to do to someone. I almost started fanwanking the first time I saw this ("Maybe The Senator had the DNA tests switched?") before throwing my hands up. [2013 May 10, Michael Tedder, “The Office Recap: Second to Last Dance”, in Vulture:]
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I cannot be fanwanked past the point that Chewie and Leia not acknowledging each other as he got off the Falcon was a fairly large mistake. [2016 January 11, AFK42 [username], “A possible explanation for why Leia hugs who she does at the end of TFA, regardless of potential familial relationships”, in Reddit, r/StarWars:]
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Sherlockians term their light‐hearted conjectures the “Writings upon the Writings,” but the Great Game in some respects resembles the contemporary pan‐fandom practice of fanwanking. [2018, Roberta Pearson, “Janeites and Sherlockians: Literary Societies, Cultural Legitimacy, and Gender”, in Paul Booth, editor, A Companion to Fandom and Fan Studies, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 500:]