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wonky

 

  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  wonky 
  adj  1:  turned  or  twisted  toward  one  side  "a...youth  with  a 
  gorgeous  red  necktie  all  awry"-  G.K.Chesterton  [syn:  {askew}, 
  {awry(p)},  {cockeyed},  {lopsided}] 
  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}] 
 
  From  Jargon  File  (4.2.3,  23  NOV  2000)  [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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