Is there a word like wanker, but like wanker to the trillionth power?

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Asks Atrios.

Simple answers for simple questions:

Yes.

The word is über-wanker.

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"Ur-wanker," the foundational, fundamental, ultra-distilled,

pure essence of "wank" ?

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Both can co-exist

I would say that Norman Podhoretz, to take but one example, would, as the founder of a movement, be an ur-wanker.

Jonah Goldberg, OTOH, would be an uber-wanker.

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