- 1歪歪的、不平穩的；(東西)有點怪怪的不太好用。台灣通常說「歪掉了」「怪怪的」「怪怪der」，英式口語的隨口用法，不是「壞掉」那麼嚴重。注意美式英語的 wonky 常指「鑽研政策細節的」，跟英式的「歪」完全不同。
Not straight, not level, or not steady — it wobbles, leans, or sits at a slightly wrong angle. A table with one short leg is wonky; a shelf you put up badly is wonky; if you draw a circle by hand it comes out wonky. From that, people stretch it to mean 'not working properly' in a small, way: my knee's been a bit wonky since I fell, the wifi's gone wonky again, the printer's wonky today. It almost never means seriously broken or dangerous — it means slightly off, and there's usually a smile in it. This is British and Australian English, informal and friendly; you say it in conversation and in a message to a friend, not in a report. Americans understand it but don't say it much, and in American English 'wonky' more often means something completely different — obsessed with policy details ('a wonky article about tax law'), from 'policy wonk'. So the same spelling is really two words in two places, and which one people hear depends on where they are.
組成From dialect wanky, an altered form of Middle English wankel 'unstable, shaky', from Old English wancol 'unstable'. The idea of swaying or not standing firm has been inside this word for over a thousand years.
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wonkyadj詞源 1/ˈwɒŋ.kɪ/
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Lopsided, misaligned or off-centre.
- Who's this gimp with a wonky eye / I don't know but his lips are dry
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Feeble, shaky or rickety.
- It seemed likely that he would need First Aid when those wonky steps yielded, at length, to the well-known law of gravitation.
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informalcomputingengineeringmathematicsSuffering from intermittent bugs.
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informalGenerally incorrect.
- “It’s the ‘societal value’ part this looks wonky to me,” Mr. [Lee] McIntyre said in an email to The Times.
wonkynoun詞源 1/ˈwɒŋ.kɪ/
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entertainmentlifestylemusicA subgenre of electronic music employing unstable rhythms, complex time signatures, and mid-range synths.
- By the late 2000s, dubstep had splintered into numerous factions, from brostep to wonky to the evocative “purple,” […]
wonkyadj詞源 2/ˈwɒŋ.kɪ/
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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.
- McCain's message, while similar in content and equally as valid, is lost in the minutiae of “'high-risk' pools” and wonky jargon.
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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.
- [Senator Todd] Young is a low-key Indiana lawmaker with an enthusiasm for wonky, but important national security issues. He's a protégé of the late Sen. Richard Lugar, a low-key Indiana lawmaker who had an enthusiasm for wonky but important national security issues.
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