Definitions for wonky
ˈwɒŋ kiwonky

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. askew, awry(p), cockeyed, lopsided, wonky, skew-whiffadjective

   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"

2. rickety, shaky, wobbly, wonkyadjective

   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"

WiktionaryRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. wonkyadjective

   Lopsided, misaligned or off-centre.

2. wonkyadjective

   Feeble, shaky or rickety.

3. wonkyadjective

   Suffering from intermittent bugs; broken.

4. wonkyadjective

   Generally incorrect.

5. Etymology: From English dialectal wanky, alteration of wankel, from wancol, from wankulaz, from wankōnan, from wa(n)k-. Cognate with wankle, wankel, Wankelmut, vanke. See also wankle.

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1. wonky

   Wonky is an informal term primarily used in British English to describe something that is not stable, aligned or functioning correctly. It can refer to something that is shaky, unsteady, unreliable, or peculiar in behavior or nature. The term can be applied to physical objects as well as concepts, systems, ideas, etc. depending on the context.

WikidataRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. Wonky

   Wonky is an often-debated and very unique/experimental classification of electronic music that uses mid-range unstable synths, complex and unusual time signatures that appeared before summer 2008, among a range of musical genres, including hip hop, IDM, grime, chiptune, dubstep, 90's G-funk, crunk, electro and broken beat. The "wet and unstable" sound of wonky is achieved with producing such mid-range basses using pitch bending, LFOs on lowpassing and highpassing, phasing, and delaying. The resonance parameters of the synth's LFOs are often high. These effects give the synth and bass unique "wonky" sounds, hence the name of the genre.

The New Hacker's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. wonky

   [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.

Usage in printed sourcesFrom: 

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Anagrams for wonky »

1. y'know

How to pronounce wonky?

1. Alex

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   David

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   Mark

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   Daniel

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   Libby

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   Mia

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   Karen

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   Hayley

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   Natasha

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   Veena

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   Priya

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   Neerja

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   Zira

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   Oliver

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   Wendy

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   Fred

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   Tessa

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How to say wonky in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of wonky in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of wonky in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of wonky in a Sentence

1. Elizabeth Warren:

   The name may sound a little wonky, but this is a powerful provision that would fundamentally tilt the playing field further in favor of multinational corporations, worse yet, it would undermine U.S. sovereignty.

2. Tresa Undem:

   A wonky conversation about institutional racism and solutions to it I don't think is threatening to most people.

3. Jeb Bush:

   I'm proud that George and [Jeb, Jr.] are actively involved in the campaign, and my advice is have fun, do it with joy in your heart. Don't get too wonky, use the kind of humor that he's got to take me down a notch or two.

4. Jen Psaki:

   That’s why I love being a Democrat, there's a lot of wonky nerds in the Democratic Party, but we need to make it real for people, so we need to really think carefully about not getting too wonkified and making we're we talk about things in a way that is accessible.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=wonky
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wonky
3. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
4. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=wonky
5. ^ The New Hacker's Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3008/3008-h/3008-h.htm#Wonky
6. ^ Usage in printed sources
   https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=wonky