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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (2)

1. turned or twisted toward one side;
- Example: "a...youth with a gorgeous red necktie all awry"- G.K.Chesterton
- Example: "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;
- Example: "a rickety table"
- Example: "a wobbly chair with shaky legs"
- Example: "the ladder felt a little wobbly"
- Example: "the bridge still stands though one of the arches is wonky"
[syn: rickety, shaky, wobbly, wonky]



WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

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]


The Jargon File (version 4.4.7, 29 Dec 2003):

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.