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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