rickety, shaky, wobbly, wonky
(adjective) 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”
askew, awry, cockeyed, lopsided, wonky, skew-whiff
(adjective) 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”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
wonky (comparative wonkier, superlative wonkiest)
Lopsided, misaligned or off-centre.
Synonyms: awry, lonkie, misaligned, skew-whiff
(chiefly, British, Australia, NZ) Feeble, shaky or rickety.
Synonym: rickety
(informal, computing, especially Usenet) Suffering from intermittent bugs.
Synonyms: buggy, broken
(informal) Generally incorrect.
wonky (uncountable)
(music genre) A subgenre of electronic music employing unstable rhythms, complex time signatures, and mid-range synths.
wonky (comparative wonkier, superlative wonkiest)
Technically worded, in the style of jargon.
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Source: Wiktionary
22 February 2025
(noun) the use of closed-class words instead of inflections: e.g., ‘the father of the bride’ instead of ‘the bride’s father’
The Boston Tea Party helped popularize coffee in America. The hefty tea tax imposed on the colonies in 1773 resulted in America switching from tea to coffee. In the lead up to the Revolutionary War, it became patriotic to sip java instead of tea. The Civil War made the drink more pervasive. Coffee helped energize tired troops, and drinking it became an expression of freedom.
