wonky

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /ˈwɒŋ.kɪ/    美 /ˈwɑŋ.ki/|/ˈwɔŋ.ki/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A subgenre of electronic music employing unstable rhythms, complex time signatures, and mid-range synths. uncountable
    — By the late 2000s, dubstep had splintered into numerous factions, from brostep to wonky to the evocative “purple,” […]
形容词 adj.
  1. Lopsided, misaligned or off-centre.
    — Who's this gimp with a wonky eye / I don't know but his lips are dry
  2. Technically worded, in the style of jargon.
    — Climate change is an issue that might lend itself more easily to thematic framing in the news, due to the often highly technical and wonky language required to explain it.
  3. Feeble, shaky or rickety. Australia,Ireland,New-Zealand,UK
    — It seemed likely that he would need First Aid when those wonky steps yielded, at length, to the well-known law of gravitation.
  4. Technical in nature, difficult for non-specialists to understand.
    — During the boom times, Paris Hilton, Snoop Dogg, Reese Witherspoon and Matt Damon all gushed about or invested in crypto projects, bringing a mainstream audience to the wonky world of digital currencies.
  5. Suffering from intermittent bugs. informal
  6. Generally incorrect. informal

词形变化

wonkier comparative wonkiest superlative wonkier comparative wonkiest superlative

词汇关系

衍生词
wonkily wonkiness wonky hole

词源

词源 1
From English dialectal wanky, alteration of Middle English wankel (“unstable, shaky”), from Old English wancol (“unstable”), from Proto-West Germanic *wankul (“swaying, shaky, unstable”).
词源 2
Etymology tree
English wonk
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Germanic *-gaz
Proto-West Germanic *-g
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
English wonky
From wonk + -y.
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