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- [1] : WordNet (r) 2.0
wonky
adj 1: turned or twisted toward one side; "a...youth with a
gorgeous red necktie all awry"- g.k.chesterton; "his
wig was, as the british say, skew-whiff" syn: askew,
awryp, cockeyed, lopsided, skew-whiff
2: inclined to shake as from weakness or defect; "a rickety
table"; "a wobbly chair with shaky legs"; "the ladder felt
a little wobbly"; "the bridge still stands though one of
the arches is wonky" syn: rickety, shaky, wobbly
also: wonkiest, wonkier
see also:
askew awryp cockeyed lopsided skew-whiff rickety
shaky wobbly wonkiest wonkier
- [2] : Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001)
wonky /wong'kee/ adj. from australian slang yet another approximate
synonym for broken. specifically connotes a malfunction that produces
behavior seen as crazy, humorous, or amusingly perverse. "that was the
day the printer's font logic went wonky and everybody's listings came
out in tengwar." also in `wonked out'. see funky, demented,
bozotic.
see also:
broken funky demented bozotic
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