Recurring alphabet thread

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Wonk

A person who takes excessive interest in the specialized details of a political policy

Compare to: wonker, which is an insult presented in a crafty way that evades the auto-mod feature

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Whimp

"A whimp is someone who is weak or cowardly, while a wimp is someone who is feeble or unathletic" ~ thecontentauthority.com

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Winthrop { Posh English name. 'I always knew Winthrop would be PM. He ran the tuck shop at Repton you know.'}

@the-gravedigger said
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Winthrop { Posh English name. 'I always knew Winthrop would be PM. He ran the tuck shop at Repton you know.'}

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Worsen
The direction most threads tend to go here.
They (worsen)

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Worsted

A fine smooth yarn spun from combed long-staple nonsense that is intended to seem worse than whatever yarn the previous poster told.

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Wonka

His actual first name was Woodrow but the childhood nickname Willy just kind of stuck

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I just spent a momemt totting them up and, give or take 5 or 6, there are 23,755 English words that start with the letter W.

@fmf said
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I just spent a momemt totting them up and, give or take 5 or 6, there are 23,755 English words that start with the letter W.

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Woman

From the Old English wīfmon, the ancient word for wife.

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Warlock

A word that simply does not have the same negative connotations as its female equivalent, witch... yet more evidence that this is a man's world.

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Winker {Rip Van}

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Winkler, Henry

I never found him funny in Happy Days. In fact, I never found Happy Days funny.

X

The 29th letter of the Romanian alphabet. And with that, let's move on.

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Yeast

"Someone should turn it into a sticky, dark brown paste with a distinctive, salty, powerful flavour and heady aroma... oh wait... they have!"