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English Dictionary: wonky by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [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"
    Synonym(s): 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"
    Synonym(s): rickety, shaky, wobbly, wonky
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 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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