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wonky (encz) | wonky,váhavý adj: Zdeněk Brož |
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] |
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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