Wonky

2 definitions found

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  wonky
       adj 1: 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" [syn: {askew},
               {awry(p)}, {cockeyed}, {lopsided}, {skew-whiff}]
       2: 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" [syn: {rickety}, {shaky}, {wobbly}]
       [also: {wonkiest}, {wonkier}]

From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]:

  wonky /wong'kee/ adj. [from Australian slang] Yet another approximate
     synonym for {broken}. Specifically connotes a malfunction that produces
     behavior seen as crazy, humorous, or amusingly perverse. "That was the
     day the printer's font logic went wonky and everybody's listings came
     out in Tengwar." Also in `wonked out'. See {funky}, {demented},
     {bozotic}.