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

• y'know

Source: Wiktionary



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2 April 2025

COVERT

(adjective) secret or hidden; not openly practiced or engaged in or shown or avowed; “covert actions by the CIA”; “covert funding for the rebels”


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The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.

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