An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
WONKY
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
Etymology 1
Adjective
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.
Noun
wonky (uncountable)
(music genre) A subgenre of electronic music employing unstable rhythms, complex time signatures, and mid-range synths.
Etymology 2
Adjective
wonky (comparative wonkier, superlative wonkiest)
Technically worded, in the style of jargon.
Anagrams
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Source: Wiktionary
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LEFT
(adjective) being or located on or directed toward the side of the body to the west when facing north; “my left hand”; “left center field”; “the left bank of a river is bank on your left side when you are facing downstream”
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