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Found 2 hits - Term: wonky, Database: *, Strategy: exact
[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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