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wonk
(encz) | wonk, |
wonk
(wn) | wonk
n 1: an insignificant student who is ridiculed as being affected
or boringly studious [syn: swot, grind, nerd, wonk,
dweeb] |
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wonky
(encz) | wonky,váhavý adj: Zdeněk Brož |
Forswonk
(gcide) | Forswonk \For*swonk"\, a. [Pref. for- + swonk, p. p. of swinkto
labor. See Swink.]
Overlabored; exhausted; worn out. [Obs.] --Spenser.
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Swonk
(gcide) | Swink \Swink\, v. i. [imp. Swank, Swonk; p. p. Swonken; p.
pr. & vb. n. Swinking.] [AS. swincan, akin to swingan. See
Swing.]
To labor; to toil; to salve. [Obs. or Archaic]
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Or swink with his hands and labor. --Chaucer.
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For which men swink and sweat incessantly. --Spenser.
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The swinking crowd at every stroke pant "Ho." --Sir
Samuel
Freguson.
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Swonken
(gcide) | Swink \Swink\, v. i. [imp. Swank, Swonk; p. p. Swonken; p.
pr. & vb. n. Swinking.] [AS. swincan, akin to swingan. See
Swing.]
To labor; to toil; to salve. [Obs. or Archaic]
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Or swink with his hands and labor. --Chaucer.
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For which men swink and sweat incessantly. --Spenser.
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The swinking crowd at every stroke pant "Ho." --Sir
Samuel
Freguson.
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wonky
(wn) | 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,
awry(p), cockeyed, lopsided, wonky, 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, wonky] |
twonkie
(foldoc) | twonkie
/twon'kee/ The software equivalent of a Twinkie (a variety of
sugar-loaded junk food, or (in gay slang) the male equivalent
of "chick"); a useless "feature" added to look sexy and
placate a marketroid.
Compare Saturday-night special.
The term may also be related to "The Twonky", title menace of
a classic SF short story by Lewis Padgett (Henry Kuttner and
C. L. Moore), first published in the September 1942
"Astounding Science Fiction" and subsequently much
anthologised.
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wonky
(jargon) | 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.
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