wazzock

Origin: Possibly from wiseacre, influenced by pillock, or possibly . 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. Origin information sourced from Wiktionary contributors (CC BY-SA 4.0).