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wonky in WordNet English dictionary
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"
askew awry cockeyed lopsided wonky skew-whiff
- 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"
rickety shaky wobbly wonky
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wonky in English Wiktionary
- (adjective) (context/mostly/UK/and/Australia) lopsided, misaligned or off-centre
- (adjective) (context/mostly/UK/and/Australia) feeble, shaky or rickety
- (adjective) ("computer jargon" especially Usenet and the Hacker's Dictionary) suffering from intermittent bugs, broken
- (adjective) Generally incorrect
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