Wonky

Definition: Wonky

Wonky

Adjective

1. Turned or twisted toward one side; "a...youth with a gorgeous red necktie all awry"- G.K.Chesterton.

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".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Computing

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Wonky

Crosswords: Wonky

And our tape machine's all wonky. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer)

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Books

• The adventures of G. Whizzard, of Wonky Lane, Rumble-in-the-Marsh, Somewhere (reference)

• THE WONKY DONKEY (reference)

  (more book examples)

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Beginning with "wonky": wonky-gobbed.

Albanian

që tundet (jolty, wobbly), gati për t'u prishur. (various references)

Arabic 

‏متزعزع (insecure, precarious, rickety, shaky, slippery, unstable, unsteady), ‏أصابه خلل. (various references)

Bulgarian 

разклатен (dicky, doddered, loose, shaky), нестабилен (crank, dicky, doddery, groggy, insecure, tottery, uncertain, unsound, unstable, unsteady), неуверен (diffident, insecure, shaky, unassertive, unassured, uncertain, uncool), несигурен (build on sand, chancy, dangerous, disputable, dubious, equivocal, faltering, halting, insecure, irresolute, long, pendulous, precarious, problematic, queasy, risky, rocky, shaky, slippy, suspensive, tentative, top heavy, tottery, treacherous, uncertain, uneasy, unreliable, unresolved, unsafe, unsettled, unsound, unsteady, unsure, untrustworthy, variable, versatile), ненадежден (fly-by-night, shaky, slippery, trustless, unreliable), погрешен (awry, erroneous, false, faulty, illegitimate, improper, inaccurate, incorrect, mis-, misguided, mistaken, off beat, perverse, unsound, untrue, vicious, wrong, wrongful). (various references)

French

détraqué, déréglé, branlant (wobbly), bancal (wobbly). (various references)

Greek 

ξεχαρβαλωμένο. (various references)

Hebrew 

רופף (flimsy, precarious, ramshackle, rickety, shaky, unstable). (various references)

Hungarian

tántorgó (giddy-paced, groggy, staggering), rozoga (crazy, Dickey, dicky, dilapidated, ramshackle, rattletrap, rickety, shaky, tumble down, tumble-down). (various references)

Italian

traballante (rickety, rocky, shaking, shaky). (various references)

Pig Latin

onkyway.(various references)

Portuguese

vacilante (faltering, fitful, flickering, floating, limp, rickety, shaky, shilly-shally, tipsy, trembling, vacillating, wavering, wobbly), pouco seguro (pasteboard, rickety, unassured, unsafe, unsteady, untrustworthy, vague), pouco firme (incompact, infirm, insecure, niddle-noddle, rattletrap, shaky, shifting, tottering, tottery, uncertain, unsafe, unsound, unstable, unsteady, unsure, weak-kneed, wobbly), instável (ambulatory, astatic, baffling, bumpy, changeable, erratic, fickle, kid-glove, labile, lubricous, mobile, mutable, off-balance, slippery, slippy, temperamental, ticklish, tippy, tottering, unreliable, unsound, unstable, unsteady, variable, wayward). (various references)

Russian 

шаткий (crazy, grog, groggy, shaky, wabbly, wobbly), ненадежный (dicky, fair weather, fast and loose, fly-by-night, incalculable, insecure, precarious, shaky, slippery, tricksy, troublesome, trustless, truthless, uncertain, undependable, unreliable, unsafe, unsound, unsure, untrustworthy). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

nesiguran (dickey, dicky, diffident, dotty, doubtful, faltering, insecure, precarious, shaky, uncertain, uneasy, unsafe, unsound, unsure, waggly, wildcat), klimav (flimsy, loose, niddle-noddle, rickety, rocky, shaky, wobbly). (various references)

Spanish

flojo (dull, fading, feeble, flabby, flagging, floppy, fluffily, forceless, groggy, idle, lame, lax, limber, limp, loose, loosely, milk and water, nerveless, sagging, slack, sluggish, soft, supine, thin, threadbare, tipsily, unfirm, unformal, ungirt, unsteadily, watery, weak, wishy washy, wobbly). (various references)

Swedish

ostadig (cranky, fickle, groggy, shaky, uncertain, unstable, unsteady, wobbly). (various references)

Turkish

sakat (cripple, crippled, crock, defective, disabled, funny, game, gammy, handicapped, incapable of working, infirm, invalid, lame, lame duck, malformed), halsiz (drooping, droopy, exhausted, faint, groggy, infirm, languid, languorous, prostrate, run down, senile, sluggish, very tired, washy, weak, weakly), bitkin (all in, all out, beat, broken down, bushed, dead beat, dog tired, drained, drawn, drawn out, drooping, effete, exhausted, faint, forworn, haggard, jaded, knackered, languorous, overdone, played out, pooped, pooped out, prostrate, run down, spent, stale, tired, tired to death, toilworn, tuckered out, used up, washed out, weakly, weary, whacked, worn, worn out, worn to a frazzle, wretched, zonked), çürük (bad, bruise, carious, cavity, contusion, decay, decayed, dicky, draft-exempt, dry rot, feeble, flimsy, putrefacient, putrefactive, putrid, rickety, rocky, rotten, sleazy, tooth decay, unsound). (various references)

Ukrainian

хирлявий (cachectic), хиткий (crazy, dicky, rickety, sandyish, shaky, tottery, wabbly, waggly, weak, wobbly). (various references)

Vietnamese 

lảo đảo, ọp ẹp què quặt. (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: know, wonk.

-2 letters: now, own, wok, won, wyn, yok, yon, yow.

-3 letters: no, on, ow, oy, wo, yo.

+4 letters: fancywork, knowingly, workmanly.

+5 letters: donkeywork, fancyworks.