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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